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To: FJB who wrote (26060)	4/20/1998 2:25:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

From Brian Davis: IBM roadmap for M2 alternativecpu.com Joe

To: FJB who wrote (26060)	4/20/1998 10:11:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

RE:"We're in the age of super-scalar CPUs" Bob, Superscalar design has served little purpose other than to slow down the clock speed of the CPU. Ten years ago it was believed that compilers could be written to comingle threads through an instruction stream. It never happened. VLIW is also based in this principle. I doubt it will happen there either. The natural way to execute two threads in parallel is on two processors. This technology has been around for decades and is quite well established. The fastest CPU in the world is also the simplest, i.e. Alpha. I have little doubt that multiple simple CPU's will become the standard approach to dealing with the many threads running on all Windows NT systems. Scumbria