> On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:32:44PM -0600, David L Nicol wrote:
> > http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/news/
> > Yikes! Apparently the "Elbrus E2K" is a 0.18 micron *386 compatible
> > running at 1.2GHz
>
> The E2K is not in production; it's just a design on paper (well, on
> disk I suppose) right now, and unless they get some outside funding
> the designers will not be able to take it beyond that state. Granted,
> it's a very compelling design, and there's no reason to think they
> wouldn't be able to make it given the resources, but one thing they
> don't say is how much it would cost...
Hmmm...it looked at least like they had some prototypes...oh well.
Vaporware...
> What does this have to do with Mersenne primes again?
Finding 'em faster! :-) Discussing ways to optimize the speed of the
programs by using some of the nifty new instructions/capabilities of the new
processors coming out (like the PIII, AMD K6-3, Merced, etc).
Aaron
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