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To: tcmay who wrote (136319)5/30/2001 4:03:02 AM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
<Microcontrollers as Graveyards .... So, I think it off-base to characterize the 29K, 32K, MIPS, 960, and 860 architectures as "microcontrollers." >

Obviously I did not mean that MIPS, National 32000,i960 etc were designed as microcontrollers. I am well aware that they were designed as general purpose processors. They either failed in that attempt, or the management did not want to pursue them as general purpose processors any more ( due to high infrastructure cost or lack of market acceptance or product overlap etc).

Thus these elegant and fine products ended up as microcontrollers. Elegant architecture is not enough to ensure business success. The Itanium is obviously the ultimate in elegance today. But that alone guarantees very little, as I discussed earlier.The key will be getting the developer community to port the software on this platform, provide the hardware infrastructure, and provide the roadmap which will solidify the faith of the software vendors.
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