[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Neil Rieck]

On Mar 13, 1:56 pm, Marc Schlensog <mschlens+n... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:21:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Neil Rieck <n.ri... 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.

Wow, There are some cool EV8 docs in that folder as well. I'm glad
someone grabbed them before they hit the bit-bucket.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/