And then, for those of us who were too poor ;) to afford sexy hardware with real live hardware vector instructions, there was... *shudder*... VSIM.
"But I'm *much* better now..." -dan. On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, David Boyes wrote: > > VFs were mostly supported through subroutine libraries like > > ESSL. Some were no charge items. > > MPSX/370 supported the VF. > > > > Other solutions (all the PCMs had vector models at various > > times) tended to use the VAST > > compiler. Only a handful were ever sold, but they went like > > stink if the problem was a good > > fit. Vector Inner Product on the NAS AS/9160, for instance. > > Funny you should mention that. One of the prototype boards for the NAS > vector gadget is sitting on a shelf in my office...8-) > > There was also software developed at the Cornell CRPC to use the vector > machines; they were the source of the add-ons to the VS Fortran V2 libs > that knew how to use the VF. > > -- db >
