9 Aug
1999
9 Aug
'99
7:44 a.m.
Chuck McManis wrote:
At 08:42 PM 8/9/99 +0200, Hans wrote:
OK, do I get any points for HP with the PA-RISC?
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Hans B Pufal Comprehensive Computer Catalogue
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What about MIPS recently de merged from SGI. Then
there is ARM,
Motorola, Intel if you count microprocessors (you listed Sparc) as
opposed to microcontrollers which would add a whole slew of other
companies like National, Microchip, Atmel...
The distinction (arbitrary I know) is companies that designed their own
architecture and built systems around it, not companies that adopted
someone elses architecture. People like ARM, Motorola, and Intel are chip
companies, not computer companies (although each has provided a computer
based around their architecture at one time.) SPARC, while it may be
considered a microprocessor with the advent of the "Tsunami" chip, prior to
that it was a multiple chip architecture and from the F8 discussions we all
know that a microprocessor is by definition a single chip :-)