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- From: thall@Ingres.COM (Trevor Hall)
- Subject: More P5 Speculation...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.173724.14764@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: thall@Ingres.COM (Trevor Hall)
- Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
- Distribution: usa
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:37:24 GMT
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- According to today's San Jose Mercury News it looks like we're going to
- get another quarter's worth of speculation on the P5 (where do you get
- your information, John Mashey?). So I thought I'd start another round by
- referring everyone to the cover of the July 6 issue of EE Times.
-
- On the cover there's a block diagram of the P5. It has the expected
- units: I and D caches, bus, FP and SScalar RISC CPU. But there's one
- I don't quite follow: Intel386 unit. Does this mean that the P5 will
- be running some kind of emulation of x86 instructions? Is there a
- "native" RISC instruction set that differs from the x86 instruction
- set?
-
- p.s. I'm a DBMS engineer. I'm so far removed from our h/w engineers, I
- can't even spell ASIC...
- --
- +-----+ Trevor Hall
- | #| Database Engineer "My dogma's better than your
- | | Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. dogma, my dogma's better
- +-----+ thall@sequent.com than yours."
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