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  3. May 2004

RE: i5....continues...

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chuck Ackerman
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: i5....continues...

>This is the same Soltis who, at a breakfast meeting in the early '90s,
>claimed that the laws of physics prevented CPU speeds past 500
>megahertz.   He's a brilliant guy, but sometimes he discusses things
>when he shouldn't.

If he said that he might be closer to being correct than you think.  CPUs
today achieve a lot of their speed by pipelining the instructions, that is
running different stages of many instructions in parallel.

My knock against Dr Frank ( if you would call it that ) is that he gets
credit for developing CPF of the S/38. I dont think he was involved with
software on the system.

-Steve

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