On 03/26/2010 10:16 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> On Wednesday 24 March 2010 05:24:39 pm Michael Dillon wrote: >>> For comparison look at the z-80 CPU which powered the early desktop >>> computers. When the IBM PC came out, people thought that the Intel 8086 >>> would make the Z-80 obsolete. But it didn't. The Z-80 just disappeared >>> into all sorts of electronic >>> devices where it serves as a controller for some function, perhaps the >>> video display or the disk drive servos. And you can still buy them. >> >> Lots of DVD drives use embedded Z80's as controllers, including the >> dual-layer >> drive in my laptop. Never thought that my teenage years spent hacking >> Z80 >> machine code on a TRS-80 could produce a currently marketable skill.... >> >> Quick, Z80 joke coming.... Addr: 0000:21 00 00 01 FF FF 11 01 00 ED >> B0.......Will it finish? >> >> Same is true of MIPS and PowerPC, though. There are far more MIPS >> chips in >> routers than ever saw desktop use in SGI workstations; and while it >> might take >> a little while for Cisco's PowerPC driven routers' CPU's to outnumber >> all the >> PowerMacs our there, one day it will happen. >> >> And then all those PowerMac assembly language gurus might prove useful >> in the >> router side of the house..... > > The Juniper SRX-100 appears to have a MIPS or MIPS-like chip in it called > an Octeon.
Cavium is mips arch... so are npu's or control plane processors from RMI, Broadcom, Atheros, Marvell etc. > Owen > >