[rescue] Re: 224 mhz sparc 20?

[Big Endian]

>On August 1, Big Endian wrote:
>>  >>  >   Ahh, the FPA!  I really liked those boards.  Brian Hechinger just
>>  >>  > started hacking on one...hes toying with the idea of writing NetBSD
>>  >>  > support for it.
>>  >>
>>  >>  Don't you also have one?  I thought you showed it to me.
>>  >
>>  >   I have several FPAs (I have probably 250 Sun 9U VME boards)...but the
>>  >board I was showing off to you that day was a TAAC, basically a VLIW
>>  >processor with video capability.  Fascinating hardware.
>>
>>  MMMMMM.... is it just me or has modern hardware lost that... 
>>wonderous nature?
>
>   Well, there's some modern stuff that's that nice.  The really big Suns
>and SGIs for example.

I guess its just that the hype is different.  Its much more 
evolutionary these days.  I remember some of the massive jumps made 
in the late 80s, early 90s and thinking "WOW".  Today we see going 
from 64 cpus max to 106 cpus max and its much less exciting.

daniel
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