Re: IIgs kills ARM-A2 prototype! Film at 11.

[jdl50630@huey.csun.edu (james d lockwood)]

Todd P. Whitesel (toddpw@ugcs.caltech.edu) wrote:
> Try looking up the American RISCs, they didn't hit commercial silicon
> until 1986 or later. ARM holds the legitimate title as first commercial
> RISC. First commercial American RISC is the Fairchild Clipper (1986),
> followed closely by MIPS and HP-PA. Those dates I got from the Berkeley
> CPU Info Center, which lists ARM's introduction date as 1986, so maybe
> that first silicon wasn't quite ready for prime time and needed work...

This is inaccurate.  ROMP (in the form of the IBM PC/RT) was announced in
January 1986, and hit production before either the MIPS R2000 or the HP-PA.
I'm not sure about the Clipper.  ROMP certainly predates it in a design
sense, though, deriving indirectly from the 801 controller.

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