Re: 11 most influential microprocessors of all time

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Sep 3, 1:06 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> I certainly appreciate that!  ;-)

:-)

> PA-RISC shook up the industry in the 1990s, by pushing performance
> harder than most thought possible.  And it was the major factor in
> catapulting HP into the server and high performance workstation markets.

And the first to implement SIMD extensions if I'm not mistaken...

> Unfortunately, having done its job, it's largely retired now...but
> it was a heck of a run!

It's been a long time now since I've seen a 9000, but I guess the
'spirit' lives on with HP/UX on Itanium systems.

It's interesting that the PPC series gets a mention in the list since
it shipped in a consumer PC. A shame that HP, Sun, MIPS who also
implemented high performance 64 bit systems long before the more
mainstream vendors, as well as providing good blueprints to everyone
else on how to make deep pipeline superscalar CPU's don't get a
mention.

Matt