[Info-vax] Dvorak on Itanic

[Tom Linden]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:27:22 -0800, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de>  
wrote:

> Tom Linden schrieb:
>
>> IIRC this started as an HP poject.  One of Jack Davidson's grad  
>> students  got
>> hired by HP ca. 1992 to work on the VLIW arch,
>
> Is this really true or just an urban legend ?
> I have always suspected the Itanic goes
> back to some weird Prof in (theoretical) computer
> science. Such a person might have thought he (i.e. his students)
> would be brilliant enough to create an indefinitely
> smart compiler which can parallelize just about every
> source code thrown at it.
>
My post was misleading, sorry.  All I meant was that I learnt of
the project because of this guy going to work for HP, as a compiler
specialist.  But I recall there were several small companies toying
with VLIW architecture latter half of the 80's,  can't comeup with
any names just now.


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