Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors

On 4/25/2024 12:45 PM, Michael S wrote:

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:34:32 +0000
mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:
 

Michael S wrote:
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:52:36 +0000
mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:

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Seymore only did fast and simple, starting before the CDC
6600.....

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Do you attribute not exactly simple 6600 Scoreboard to Thornton?

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If you measure simplicity by gate count--the scoreboard was
considerably simpler than the reservation station design of Tomasulo.

 Both were far from simple by day's standards.
 BTW, was not low gate count of Scoreboard mostly due to creative usage
of what was later named wired logic connections, i.e. something that
stopped working in high-speed VLSI around 1985-1990 ?
 

Still kinda funny in a way that one can't really extrapolate backwards...
Say, seemingly no one built an 8/16 bit mainframe, or say using 24-bit floats (Say: S.E7.F16) rather than bigger formats, ...
Like, seemingly, the smallest point of computers was seemingly things like the 6502 and similar...
Also funny to think in a way that Binary16 is the newer format, because seemingly previously no one bothered with floating-point numbers much smaller than 32-bits (despite the usual expected trend of things getting bigger over time).
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