From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 8 0: 7:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8E915273 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:07:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA10106; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 01:07:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.56.19990708010021.041462e0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.56 (Beta) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 01:04:35 -0600 To: Greg Lehey , Phil Regnauld From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: IA64 Cc: David Scheidt , Yann Ramin , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990708153710.B6035@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990708081844.17503@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990708081844.17503@ns.int.ftf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:37 PM 7/8/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >Are you implying that the 8080 was a high-end processor? At the time, it was. It was a darned sight better than the 8008. But that was longer ago. I was talking about the iAPX 432. The architecture of the iAPX 432 was truly inspired. But the chips were too expensive to make at the time, no one understood how good the basic architecture was, and there was no bus fast enough to allow the chips to shine. Intel has never had a flop like that since. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message