[Info-vax] Some of what I'm reading...

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-10-02 21:03:01 +0000, Michael S said:

> I was hoping to compare his relatively new thoughts with articles he 
> wrote 16 years ago.
> https://www.realworldtech.com/vax-cpu-economics/
> https://www.realworldtech.com/vax-alpha/
> 
> But it turned out that your link is from 2005 :(

Not much has changed with VAX since 2005, either.

Though DEC Standard 32—the VAX Architecture standard, DECSTD032—has 
become generally available more recently. 
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decvaxarch32Jan90_36555387

For microprocessors and the continued increase in integration, one of 
the shifts in recent times has been around customized designs, well 
past the "blow a fuse" customizations sometimes found in the era of 
VAX- or Alpha designs. Commodity microprocessor vendors target wider 
sales with their standard microprocessor products, while system 
vendors—particularly the middling and larger vendors—are increasingly 
able to customize and differentiate their processor designs for added 
ML, GPU, trusted storage and storage encryption, or other features; for 
deeper integration.  You can do more with 114 billion transistors in 
the recent (shipping) designs, as compared with what was possible with 
the 3.1 billion with Intel Poulson/Kittson era Itanium designs.

Mashey has seemingly been occupied elsewhere: 
https://www.csldf.org/2017/10/06/2461/


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