- ...coded
- perhaps hand coded
- ...80960CB
- The 80960CB is the floating-point version of the
80960CA[Int89b] [Int89a]. The CB should be
available by the end of the year. Since the CB only differs from the CA in
that it supports on chip floating-point, the CA is sufficient for
development.
- ...bus
-
We plan to use HPIB/GPIB initially. Later other mediums may be employed to
implement the T-Station interface. (GPIB is also known as IEEE Std 488
[Com78].)
- ...available.
- However, the selection of
processors is not completely critical. That is, we would take just about
any reasonable processor we can get for free over ones for which we would
have to pay real amounts of money.
- ...scheme.
- Alternately, its
bugs will provide valuable feedback about what does not work well about
our packaging scheme.
- ...Wonderland
- ...and possibly
Braintree
- ...storage.
- Its unclear whether
conventional disk storage will be the most desirable form of secondary
storage at such a point. Optical disks or wafer-scale memory technology
[Cur89] might be preferable at that point.