On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:01:02 -0600, John McKown wrote:
>​SIMD, to me, means instructions akin to the old vector facility on a few
>of the previous machines.
Think MMX and SSE for your x86 boxes. They've had it since before the turn of
the century. Not to mention SMT.
All this is old news to the rest of the computing word.
Then there is the EBCDIC issue you mentioned - and {big,little}-endian concerns
of course.
I hope it builds the z base, but I can't see it converting many over.
Shane ...
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