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From: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Wirth's challenge (was Re: RISC)
Message-ID: <6892@apple.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 16:39:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 16:39:42 1987
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Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
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>However, you can buy 2 machines that are clearly 801-descendents:
>HP Precision and MIPS R2000, which, as far as I can tell, are the
>closest ones on the market to the 801.  Whenever it comes out, the
>78000 has a lot of similarities also.

The only way that the HP Precision architecture can be considered is in spirit.
Although there were former IBM'ers on the project, they weren't allowed to talk
about it at all, and they didn't. To this day, I haven't talked with anyone
who would tell me any details on the 801 architecture. Some details did come
out in the papers at the ASPLOS conference, but they did not influence any
of the design decisions on the Precision.

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