Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:15:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com> To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Cc: Brandon Lockhart <brandon@engulf.net>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Jeremy Domingue <jer@hughes.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980714210347.16690C-100000@ixion.honeywell.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.980715104806.21059B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
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Well, the closest I could find on that is the following quotes from http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/MPF1097C.HTM It's all quite interesting! "Then a number of influences came along. One of them was VLIW which showed that it was possible for certain applications to get a lot of things going in parallel. VLIW was not a commercial success, but it provided the motivation behind superscalar and then today's out of order superscalar machines, where we have hardware doing a fair amount of work, looking for parallelism in your instruction code, searching for and dispatching independent instructions, and then enhancing that through out of order techniques, register renaming a smaller register set to a larger register set, and in general, a lot of hardware activity to find implicit parallelism in your code and to take advantage of that." .... "The other thing that's very important, particularly in the explicit parallelism activity, is what distinguishes us from the earlier VLIW machines, and that is we have built in flexibility in specifying the parallelism so we can offer scalability ahead, and compatibility ahead as we go to wider and wider machines." <=========== America Held Hostage ===========> Day 2001 for the poor and the middle class. Day 2020 for the rich and the dead. 921 days remaining in the Raw Deal. <============================================> On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Michael Hancock wrote: > Isn't VLIW a part of what Merced is about? > > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Shawn Leas wrote: > > > > > Maybe you need to look into VLIW, IMHO the future of architecture. Very > > Long Instruction Word... You know how fixed lengh RISC instructions > > are easily pipelined? Well, VLIW is pipelined at compile time... Of > > course, non of this to my knowledge is in production anywhere, so a moot > > point.. Thought I'd mention it though, as it's fun stuff. > > > > -Shawn > > <=========== America Held Hostage ===========> > > Day 2001 for the poor and the middle class. > > Day 2020 for the rich and the dead. > > 921 days remaining in the Raw Deal. > > <============================================> > > > > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Brandon Lockhart wrote: > > > > > What are you talking about, I was talking about for a HIGHLY used server, > > > as in, more then cdrom.com, and I was talking about a REAL server, not a > > > PC supped up. I am talking about a rack mount server, a REAL server. > > > Which in case you where out of the loop, most REAL servers use RISC. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, David Greenman wrote: > > > > > > :>First of all, I do not recommend Gateway 2k for server's. Get a COMPAQ or > > > :>HP or SUN. RISC is the way to go. > > > : > > > : It's a good thing that we (the FreeBSD developers) don't believe this else > > > :several of the largest servers on the Internet wouldn't be running FreeBSD. > > > :...but of course we think otherwise. FreeBSD makes an excellent server > > > :platform and most PCs, despite their warts, work just fine in this application. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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