From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510
Date: 1999/12/23
Date: 1999-12-23T17:48:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3862621F.5BF01C4A@mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83sbso$rg3$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
> I really would like to see a definitive reference for this. I
> cannot find any evidence that the above claim is true, and I
> have a lot of IBM documentation from that period!
I'm a pack rat, but not quite that much of a pack rat. When RPI was
upgrading from an IBM 360/50, the committee looked at several
alternatives. IBM was almost ruled out until we got to run some
benchmarks on the prototype 3033. We then ordered one on the first day
orders were accepted and then traded with someone whose building wasn't
ready to get a very low serial number machine. (Our new building wasn't
ready either, but there was room to shoehorn it in with the 360/50.)
In any case, there were several microcode extensions which, when
used, dramatically sped up some of our key benchmarks.
Anyone from IBM--or a bigger packrat than I am--who can find a
twenty year old price list?
--
Robert I. Eachus
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-24 0:00 Compiler for Z80/6510 Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Wil
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Peter Milliken
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <01bf38cb$be9b2b60$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-13 0:00 ` carr_tom
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Frank Klemm
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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