Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Vector processors, i860
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.224442.12489@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <798@nvuxl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 1991 22:44:42 GMT

In article <798@nvuxl.UUCP> hsong@nvuxl.UUCP (g hugh song) writes:
>Why is it so hard to build a UNIX machine with Intel's i860 chip?  What is
>missing in this chip for building a UNIX machine out of this chip? ...

An architecture whose potential performance can be exploited in high-level
languages without driving the compiler writers up the wall. :-(
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"Maybe we should tell the truth?"      | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
"Surely we aren't that desperate yet." |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
