Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:44:26 -0500 | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | | Subject | Re: your mail |
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From: Systemkennung Linux <linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 06:31:41 +0100 (MET)
Almost 20 million MIPS were sold 1996. Not going away soon, especially because a couple of companies (SGI, NEC, SNI, Toshiba etc.) are standing behind it. If I look at DEC's performance at NYSE I fear for the future of the Alpha most. Hope I'm wrong about this.
Here is my contribution.... I see all 32-register or less processors completely dead soon or at least not being any major vendors primary processor (of course backward compatability for the old 32-register or less cpus will be provided somehow). Even his holyness Knuth is putting 256 registers in his next generation RISC MMIX cpu.
Let's see if Intel is smart and puts more than 32 general purpose registers in the P7, if not then I hope I'm not the one hacking ELF support for that cpu...
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