[Info-vax] Vaxes shutting off this week
Bill Gunshannon
billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Sun Mar 1 09:45:31 EST 2009
In article <%qmql.8409$%54.6277 at nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>,
Michael Austin <maustin at firstdbasource.com> writes:
>
> Hmm.. I wonder what would have happened had Alpha continued on the path
> and then did what all of the other processors had to do get more
> through-put, go multi-core with more front-end cache...
Can't you apply that same question to pretty much any old technology?
Hmm.. I wonder what would have happened had VAX continued on the path
and then did what all of the other processors had to do get more
through-put, go multi-core with more front-end cache...
Hmm.. I wonder what would have happened had PDP-11 continued on the path
and then did what all of the other processors had to do get more
through-put, go multi-core with more front-end cache...
:-)
bill
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