8 Jan
2002
8 Jan
'02
5:13 a.m.
At 07:41 AM 1/8/2002 -0800, Chris Kennedy wrote:
Darn, there goes my idea about ripping out the boards to
sell them as wall ornaments on eBay.
It sounds like they'd be a bear to move, though, regardless
of whether it was 30 miles or the 1,764 miles from Madison
to Palo Alto.
- John
He neglected why this is a historically significant
machine. Among other things,
it's an early example of dynamic instruction scheduling, decoupled access-
execute and distinct float and integer pipes. It's also a pseudo vector machine.
I'm not well-versed in architectural history, but the quick
Google search I did yesterday did certainly reveal a number
of people who'd written papers about it back then.
> He also
said you might have trouble with your electric bill.
He's probably not wrong. I believe the thing is implemented in ECL.
If I could figure out how to get one of these systems from there to
here I'd jump at the chance. These things belong in a museum, not
a scrap heap.