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To: John Rieman who wrote (32519)	4/21/1998 7:40:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

"A move to Sparc with encoders ment a whole new redesign. The same for the decoders? Starting now?" I think they may have started some time ago. They issued the Sun partnership PR a year ago. If they started over on the decoders middle of last year that would give them a year for a redesign. The timing seems to fit. They needed to move the decoders to a standard CPU anyway. The current decoders use a custom VLIW CPU making microcode writing a slow process. Moving to a Sparc architecture allows them to use more standard tools for coding up the microcode and eliminates the need for an external processor if done right.