Re: The joy of RISC

On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:30:58 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:

I have periodically claimed that John did 801/RISC to go the extreme
opposite of Future System (mid-70s there was internal adtech conference
where we presented 370 16-cpu multiprocessor and the 801/RISC group
presented RISC).

That was certainly a much more fruitful effort. IBM’s attempt to turn ROMP
into an actual product may have been an embarrassment (the RT PC), but
they more than redeemed themselves with the later POWER line, which
remains a performance leader to this day.