more talking to the press.

Gosh, I just had to enter this fray - especially since I have a complete set of Microprocessor Reports going back to 1990. In term of the most complex superscaler microprocessors in 1992, the most significant were the 960MM, 88110 and the SuperSPARC. Now I quote: "The 88110 has the most extensive partitioned and duplicated resource organization of any superscaler microprocessor. It offers a branch/ instruction issue unit, a load/store unit, two integer units, a bit-field shift unit, two graphics units, and three independent floating point units (add, multiply and divide). The degree-two issue unit can simultaneously dispatch two instructions to any two execution units with only minimal exceptions." "In addition to its impressive symmetry, the 88110 permits speculative instruction issue and execution after a predicted branch. A register file history buffer keeps track of registers so that they can be restored to their pre-branch values if the branch is later discovered to have been mis-predicted. Speculative execution allows the 88110 to extract the most performance from its two issue capability" Microprocessor Report, October 7, 1992 Lyle On Thursday 13 November 2003 21:48, Eric Smith wrote: -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA 94040 "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"