From: avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink)
Subject: Re: Translation from Dutch -> English desired .. Thanks!
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:36:59 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <BuJ0oJ.F0D@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> rrao@pima.intel.com (Ravi Rao) writes:


>Hi Folks,
>	I was hoping to get a translation of the 2 paragraphs reproduced below.
>This appeared in the magazine 'Elektronica', however as I don't know Dutch, I
>am clueless. Thanks for the effort,
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>Het viel verder op dat het 'state of the art'-concept van de conferentie zich
>niet uitstrekte tot het produktrijp maken van de geavanceerde kennis. Met de
>TU Delft als sponsor had dat misschien wel verwacht mogen worden. Het enige
>feitellijke produkt dat aan de orde kwam was de microprocessor i860 van Intel.
>Deze RISC-chip werd als noviteit gepresenteerd, al is het al ruim drie jaar
>geleden dat de processor werd uitgebracht.

Furthermore it was striking that the 'state of the art' concept of the conference
did not go as far as making the advanced knowledge 'ready for production'*1 With
the Technical University of Delft as a sponsor it was perhaps reasonable to expect
this. The only actual product that was mentioned was the i860 of Intel. This RISC
chip was presented as new, although it was three years that this processor was
released.

*1 not so sure about this.

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>De 80860 heeft een gedeeltelijk parallelle architectuur waardoor order gunstige
>omstandigheden drie bewerkingen gelijktijdig kunnen worden uitgevoerd. Volgens
>Ravi Rao, de 'Application Engineer' van Intel die de presentatie verzorgde, is het correct programmeren voor de gebruikers soms een probleem. Juist door het verschil met het traditionele programmerconcept blijkt het vaak lastig  de 
>optimale instructiereeksken te creeren. De fabrikant doet daarom moeite om zijn
>klanten op te leiden. Al dan niet analoog hieraan was ook de eerste dag van
>CompEuro'92 gereserveerd voor 'tutorials'.

The 80860 has a partially parallel architecture so that under good circumstances
three operations can be performed at the same time. According to Ravi Rao, the
'Application Engineer' at Intel who took care of the presentation, programming
correctly is sometimes a problem for users. Precisely because of the difference with
the traditional programming concept it often turns out to be hard to create the
optimal series of instructions. Analogous to this (if you wish) the first day of
CompEuro'92 was also reserved for 'tutorials'.


I thought I'd better POST the translation for otherwise mr Rao would get dozens of
translations (would be interesting to compare, though. Of course I take no responsibility
for what I've done...) I hope the magazine does not object to the publication of
this translation.

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