In article <[email protected]>, Bob Supnik <[email protected]> writes:
> Vectors were all the rage at the time (late 80s) because of the success > of the so-called "minisupers" like Convex and Alliant. It was just a > flash in the pan, of course; with the end of the Cold War in the early > 90s, funding for HPTC dried up for a decade, and all the minisuper and > VLIW companies died out. It may have been considered a "flash in the pan" as far as DEC was concerned, but it certainly had a lasting presence on computing. The simd extensions added to x86 (MMX, SSE, etc.) and other CPU architectures are testimony to the importance of vector oriented processing. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com> _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
