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- From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.004742.21203@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <DOCONNOR.93Jan7094831@potato.sedona.intel.com> <1iimlfINN7b1@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1993Jan8.180253.22151@ptdcs2.intel.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:47:42 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.180253.22151@ptdcs2.intel.com>
- ssivakum@ptdcs2.intel.com (Sam Sivakumar) writes:
-
- > The first design of a chip rarely works, certainly almost never at
- >this level of complexity.
-
- IBM claimed good results with their initial RS/6000 implementation, due
- to extensive simulation during design:
-
- The software developers were able to bring up a development version
- of the AIX operating system on the first-pass hardware successfully
- and continue development and testing of the software on the
- first-pass hardware without major hardware problem. A few
- additional functional problems were found in the hardware after
- simulation.
-
- RISC System/6000 Technology (IBM book SA23-2619)
- "Structured System Design and Verification"
- Feistel et. al
-
- There was one documented hardware bug in the released hardware. I don't
- know if has since been fixed.
-
- --
- John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
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