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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Prime
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.165115.293842@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 16:51:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul29.165115.293842
- References: <1992Jul20.092822.7666@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Jul21.040216.13502@primerd.prime.com> <1992Jul24.203449.3903@kithrup.COM>
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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- In article <1992Jul24.203449.3903@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul21.040216.13502@primerd.prime.com> danw@hobbes.prime.com (Dan Westerberg) writes:
- >>I've spent the last
- >>3 years designing a new CPU for a proprietary architecture (Prime 50 Series)
- >>that was originally a copy of a Honeywell machine from the early '70s.
- >And at least three, probably four, possibly five, different instruction
- >sets.
- >Prime's backwards compatibility is rather impressive...
-
- _Was_ rather impressive. Prime has terminated all manufacturing
- operations.
-
- This might be a good moment to ask the Net's Pr1me people for
- instructive tales.
- --
- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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