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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 22:47:22 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        groudier@club-internet.fr (Gerard Roudier), mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), obrien@NUXI.com, jedgar@fxp.org (Chris D. Faulhaber), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT 
Message-ID:  <77791.947627242@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:24:41 PST." <200001112124.NAA25511@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> 

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In message <200001112124.NAA25511@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. Grimes" writes:
>> The 810, 815 and 825 have a poor SCRIPTS instruction set. Even a years-60
>> PDP-8 was better on this topic. Basically you must do everything using
>
>Ohhhh.. I missed my smart ass reply to this little tid bit:
>``6014; 6011; 4177; 6016; 7106; 7006; ...''
>
>(Thats about all I can remeber of the BIN loader...)
>
>And I image a PDP-8 implement in modern ASIC technology could tear up
>a 53C810, and could probably be built to clock at 1GHz without a lot
>of effort, just a nice RF class BiCMOS process :-)

This kind of thinking was basically the premise behind the ARM processer...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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