[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Marc Schlensog]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:21:45 -0700 (PDT)
Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Okay so here are a few more questions (based upon coffee  discussions
> today):
> 
> 1) MVI first appears in EV56 which is early to mid 1996. According to
> the doc archives at Intel, MMX appears in Pentium in mid-1997
> (although wikipedia says 1996). Did Intel borrow the idea from Compaq
> or was this just a coincidence?

It was the PCA56, where MVI showed up first. IIRC, MVI is an
integer-only extension. If you want to see what DEC had in mind
vector-wise for EV8/EV9, check out this PDF:

www.ptlsim.org/papers/Research/EV9Tarantula.pdf

Had this ever seen the light of day, it would have blown the
competition out of the water, including the performance-per-watt ratio.