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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
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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.
-- 
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