Microprocessor Standards

Microprocessor standards

Now that microprocessors have been with us for three or four years, we can stand back and observe some disadvantages of our free enterprise system, as well as obviously great advantages. The disadvantages tend to fall most heavily on the shoulders of the user, not the manufacturer. The proliferation of microprocessors with incompatible instruction sets, adds unnecessary chores to learning new m...

New Microprocessor Standards and Markets, Part I: Technology Assessment

Servers powered by multiple new high-performance microprocessors have nearly replaced minicomputers, and are threatening the mainframe market. Supercomputers are being attacked by these same micros, either to perform simple, scalar work or ganged together to perform massively parallel computations. The differences between workstations and personal computers are rapidly diminishing. Six similar ...

Microprocessor Standards and Markets , Part 11 : Six Architectural Affiliations

Each of the dominant chip architectures has affiliations with a variety of industry playersfrom chip fabricators to platform vendors. The strength of these affiliations, or keiretsus, will play a key role in determining the general market acceptance of a chip architecture. Intel X86 is the strongest keiretsu based on its immense application availability, volume, and range of products. The Power...

The IEEE Computer Society Computer Standards Committee and the Microprocessor Standards

The projects being carried out by language mnemonics, a high-level To contact the Computer Society's subcommittees for the Computer language project which is attempting Standards Committee chairman, Society's Microprocessor Standards to make existing languages more write Robert G. Stewart, Chairman, Subcommittee arose out of the frussuitable for use with microprocessors, IEEE Computer Society S...

Microprocessor Systems