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- From: dale@manet.wustl.edu (Dale Frye)
- Subject: Re: Newton Technology
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.160404.4456@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Organization: Washington University, School of Engineering, St. Louis MO
- References: <1992Nov16.193216.5158@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:04:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.193216.5158@ulrik.uio.no> rivero@cc.unizar.es
- (rivero) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov14.095726.13059@nntp.hut.fi> Juri Munkki,
- > jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi writes:
- > >The enthusiasm that people have for Newton technology will be one of
- > >its possible keys to success. Would you rather have a situation where
- > >no one ever gets exited about anything: "Oh yeah, I've seen that kind
- > >of thing before, so what's new?".
- >
- > For me, the new thing is ARM610, even thought before Apple other
- > manufacturers had similar proposals with this chip; actually I
- > dont know of any other pen-system using this or a similar chip.
- > In fact, almost all the proposals 486 bases. I expect the garbage
- > collection will be better here.
-
- Have you heard of the Hobbit processor that EO is using in their machine?
- Its a stack-based RISC design that sounds impressive. I called AT&T (maker
- of the Hobbit) yesterday and ordered tech data. I have some white papers
- written several years ago about AT&T's CRISP technology (on which the
- Hobbit is based). In a nutshell CRISP is designed to run C code. It has no
- registers. Instead it caches the stack so that stack references are as
- fast as registers. They get 13.5 MIPS at 3.3V (using 250mW!) and 20 MIPS
- at 5V (using 900mW). IMHO this will become the processor of choice for
- running PenPoint.
-
- Dale Frye
- Washington University in St. Louis
-