Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!prls!mips!mash From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Why is SPARC so slow? Message-ID: <1129@winchester.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 87 16:57:04 GMT References: <1078@quacky.UUCP> <8809@sgi.SGI.COM> <6964@apple.UUCP> <344@ma.diab.UUCP> Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 15 In article <344@ma.diab.UUCP> pf@ma.UUCP (Per Fogelstrom) writes: .... >It's not suprising that the MIPS 2000 gives most power/Mhz,The architecture has >evolved during many years, without a hard pressure from the marketing such as >'We must have it NOW!!!'.(John Mashey mayby has another opinion, only my guess) Be serious! In a startup, the marketing pressure is for "we must have it yesterday!" As is well-documented in papers and presentations, the architecture owes a lot to earlier work, like the IBM 801 and Stanford MIPS, but almost all of the basic architecture work for the existing R2000/R2010 was done in about 6-8 months, starting in Nov-Dec 1984. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER:UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086