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Subject: Re: Vincent, will you comment on Diep hardware for Maastricht

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 09:29:24 07/01/02

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On July 01, 2002 at 11:25:48, Sven Reichard wrote:

>On July 01, 2002 at 11:03:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On July 01, 2002 at 10:11:35, Sven Reichard wrote:
>>
>>>On June 30, 2002 at 23:09:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 30, 2002 at 13:10:24, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>><snip>
>>>>I was thinking only about a conversion to X86 unix, as in linux.  The
>>>>"syntax" is reversed between microsoft and GAS, which means _every_ line
>>>>of assembly gets modified.
>>>>
>>>>A _big_ undertaking.  Even without the problem of different architectures.
>>>><snip>
>>>
>>>FWIW, there are assemblers for GNU-Linux on x86 that use Intel-style syntax,
>>>e.g., nasm.
>>>Sven.
>>
>>How about for supercomputer chips, which is where we talk about.
>>we talk about highly optimized x86 assembly , optimized over the years,
>>which has to run on a super
>
>This is an impossible task. I was referring just to the lines above.

that's exactly what Bob meant, because we were originally speaking that
some people wondered why fritz can't run at a supercomputer. Well besides
that it wouldn't play a rating point better at it, it would of course
be an impossible task to port.



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