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- From: tve@crackle.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Thorsten von Eicken)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: FP-number cache? Unclocked VLSI design.
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 01:55:20 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1993Jan5.085415.19676@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan5.170446.15655@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan5.212451.23482@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- In article <1993Jan5.212451.23482@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> tipley@solo.eng.hou.compaq.com (Roger Tipley) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.170446.15655@Princeton.EDU> awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe) writes:
- >My bookshelf has many ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News publications.
- >They all have papers published in them, and
- >most of them have so few articles it makes me wonder why I subscribe to it. I
- >would lay odds that that publication would relish a whole host of "failure
- >stories", if for no other reason than to justify its existence and make it
- >more interesting to read.
-
- You should probably just throw them into the trash can :-) (after reading!)
-
- I have stopped reading these papers. Almost all of them are of such a
- low quality that it's simply not worth my time. If they were better,
- they would appear in one of the good conferences, journals or
- magazines. I am very happy that the SIGARCH CAN have become slimmer
- over the last year or so, rememeber: pages cost money! I think that the
- role of the CAN should be to publish things which don't fit into other
- media: news about SIGARCH, announcements, and things which simply have
- no other forum. For examples, take a look at the SIGPLAN notices which
- publish language manuals, bibliographies, netnews digests (yes, CAN
- does as well). What's the point of publishing technical papers which
- should have either appeared in a reviewed forum or landed in the
- trash?
- Thorsten von Eicken
-