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- From: rivero <rivero@cc.unizar.es>
- Subject: Re: Newton Technology
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:25:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.160404.4456@wuecl.wustl.edu> Dale Frye,
- dale@manet.wustl.edu writes:
- >Have you heard of the Hobbit processor that EO is using in their machine?
- >Its a stack-based RISC design that sounds impressive. I called AT&T (maker
- >of the Hobbit) yesterday and ordered tech data. I have some white papers
- >written several years ago about AT&T's CRISP technology (on which the
- >Hobbit is based). In a nutshell CRISP is designed to run C code. It has no
- >registers. Instead it caches the stack so that stack references are as
- >fast as registers. They get 13.5 MIPS at 3.3V (using 250mW!) and 20 MIPS
- >at 5V (using 900mW). IMHO this will become the processor of choice for
- >running PenPoint.
-
- I ack I have not tech data about the Hobbit. When you get it, could you
- tell us how good is the memory management? For me that was a
- interesting point in the last ARM, that was inviting to put a object
- oriented OS into (allthought the older ARM have always run with
- Unix as preferred OS).
-
- Alejandro Rivero
- Theoretical Physica, Zaragoza Univ, Spain
-