[SunRescue] 5 major manufacturers?

[Mike Hebel]

VLIW? ILW?  i860? Itanic? (Titanic?)
*head in hands* I'm so confused!!?!!

Seriously I have not a cluon as to what you guys are talking about.  Is
there someone/thing to explain this?  (I'm kind guessing that the i860 is a
separate processor card being used for compiling and/or application running
in the PC environment?  Maybe?  *gulp* Help? Anyone?)

Mike Hebel

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> >Behalf Of nick at snowman.net
> >Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:12 PM
> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] 5 major manufacturers?
> >
> >
> >VLIW is a cool idea, but it requires you to put all your trust in the
> >compiler.  That's what I understand really really killed the I860.  The
> >Itanic is a very similar basic design.  We'll see how well it works this
> >time.
> >	Nick
> >
> >On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 dave at cca.org wrote:
> >
> >> newell at cei.net writes:
> >>
> >> >>I don't allow PC hardware in my home. (Ok, one exception, there's
> >> >>a rack-mount 486 sitting near me that has 6 i860s in it. That's
> >>
> >> >i860...wow.  I've got a couple of VME i860 boards, but I
> >never could find
> >> >an assembler or compiler to play with.  Somewhere on the 'net
> >there's a
> >> >description of the exposed FPU pipeline.  Pretty scary.
> >>
> >> Very scary. An EE friend of mine designed some boards that used
> >> them, and he cringes at the name. Allegedly they represent one
> >> of the worst cases of the chip people not talking to the compiler
> >> people.
> >>
> >> The i860 is (kinda) a LIW though, and I'm a *huge* VLIW fan. Some
> >> day I will get myself a TAAC board... I don't want to talk about
> >> that Multiflow system I almost, but didn't, score. Dammit.
> >>
> >> -------- David Fischer -------- dave at cca.org --------
www.cca.org --------
> "Beauty is only skin-deep. It's what's underneath that really matters."
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