From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rochkind@basepath.com (Marc Rochkind) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:21:22 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] sort of unrelated but In-Reply-To: <20160322011111.GH1619@mcvoy.com> References: <20160322011111.GH1619@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: I recall Grove's book, High Output Management. And, the companion book, written by employees: Dealing With High Output Management. On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/andrew-s-grove-1936-2016/ > > I know some of the processor people at intel and I was looking around, > found this, interesting read if you are into the history: > > http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/330/chronques.html > > For those that don't know, Colwell did the P6 pipeline, I think under > Groove or right after Groove got cancer. There was P5, then P6, then > they did a different pipeline that they called Pentium 4 (made no sense > to me but their names never do). The Pentium 4 was the one where > they speculated on what the answer would be for some instructions. > As in you could do a load and they'd guess that it was zero or not. > They were going for great clock rate, and they got it, but they also > got instructions that would take 2000 cycles to get through. > > That pipeline got booted and so far as I know, the Colwell P6 pipeline > lives on in every Intel processor after the Pentium 4. > > Getting back to Andy, I loved his time as CEO, I think he did a lot of > good for that company. Here's to him! > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: