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Re: [f-cpu] Register Bank





philippe.trbich@free.fr wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:00:07 +0200
> Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:19:17AM +0200, Juergen Goeritz wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > > Did you try to synthesize this yet?
<>
> > I would, if I could.  I have no synthesis tools on my Linux PC (and it
> > wouldn't be sufficient anyway with its poor 96 MB of RAM).  When Nico
> > tried to synthesize the multiplier on his Suns, he also ran into memory
> > limitations (1 GB is not enough for such a big unit if one turns on some
> > optimization bells & whistles during the run).  So, if you can provide
> > access to a multi-gigabyte multi-gigahertz multi-CPU system and a set
> > of synthesis tools for it, I will happily synthesize every piece of code
> > before I send it to the rest of the world.
> I've read in Login HS no 7 (a french newspaper) that IBM has offered
> for 1024 users a mainframe zSeries : you have to subscribe to page
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/lcds/ whitch will
> give you an account to process what you want.

i went there and saw : it is a S/390 system, i doubt that the EDA
tools work on this platform. i have never heard about recent EDA
tools working on mainframes (at least in the last decade).

> > BTW: Armstrong said "one small step for a man", IIRC.
> > But please also remember what Major Tom said in `Space Oddity':
> >
> >       "... and there's nothing I can do."
> And we will perhaps addeed, IBM has done it?

it would have been too good ;-)

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