Intel engineer discusses their dualcore design 2163
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:30:44 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Wasn't the 3033 a 3168 on steriods? ...complete with dual I-streams?
there was some high integrity mainframe systems deployed in the 60s and 70s. among other things, theyy were being used for commercial timesharing services ... some number of these commercial timesharing services were selling into...
3mos? Wow. I had a friend that had a bank of '85s doing ASTAP (circuit sim) for 72 hours at a crack over the weekends. His boss didn' tmuch like the bill, but the "customer" (internal) wanted statistical tranisent runs. ...something today that could be done on this computer with some version of Spice nin a few hours, no doubt.
...and you swiped it. ;-) Aside: I worked on the 3033.
At least you didn't *smoke* 'em. Customers *hated* that. Execs seemed to hat us for it. ;-)
303x machines were organized to use the 303x channel director. the 370-158 had integrated channels ... i.e. the 158 engine was shared between the microcode that...
You "stole" the CPU cycles. We had a ton of the systems on site, but they were off-limits to users (customer machines can't be toyed with). Indeed I end one customer's ES9000. I pushed it over the power-on cycles looking for an intermittent bug. My boss had to buy all the TCMs. He wasn't happy, but they wouldn't buy (or rent) me a $10 logic analyzer either. So we spent weeks tracking down the bug and a few more patching it.
-- Keith
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