Re: Seeing VERSIONINFO under Vista?

No, that was a different era. The 432 was the wrong architecture for its performance era,
or it might have succeeded. But it was designed in the 70s.

I have taken to referring to the Itanic as "the 432 of the 90s".

A friend of mine left CMU to join the 432 team because it was so exciting. He was the
architectect of the object model and object file system of our capabiity-based
multiprocessor operating system, Hydra. He ended up being the senior architect of the P6
(Pentium II or Pro, I forget which) architecture, and he's still at Intel as a very
senior technical person.
joe

On Thu, 24 May 2007 19:58:31 -0700, "Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I guess that was the professor who designed iAPX432 (?). Very interesting
architecture, but nout quite practical. How about bit-aligned instructions?

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I made some comment about the '286 to a professor I knew, who asked me
what I thought of
it. I said (in summary) "it was a chip designed by someone who paid close
attention to
his computer architecture professor and believed everything he said. But
he missed a
serious dose of reality, so the chip was actively hostile to operating
system designers."
He looked offended and said "The designer of the '286 was my best
student". I said,
"Well, you are a great teacher, and he believed you. But you forgot to
tell him about the
real world of hardware design. And you *know* better!"



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