[Simh] VAX vectors

[Richard]

In article <559E9CCA.5050701 at supnik.org>,
    Bob Supnik <bob at supnik.org> writes:

> Vectors were all the rage at the time (late 80s) because of the success 
> of the so-called "minisupers" like Convex and Alliant. It was just a 
> flash in the pan, of course; with the end of the Cold War in the early 
> 90s, funding for HPTC dried up for a decade, and all the minisuper and 
> VLIW companies died out.

It may have been considered a "flash in the pan" as far as DEC was
concerned, but it certainly had a lasting presence on computing.  The
simd extensions added to x86 (MMX, SSE, etc.) and other CPU
architectures are testimony to the importance of vector oriented
processing.
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