"New-Yorke" ?

[Jonathan Busby]

(06-16-2020 05:48 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello,

As far as I know, it was work done by the old calc division in corvalis.
I definitely heard talks about it when I was in Australia, but that chip never made it to manufacturing. I do not know why. People where not there anymore to continue the project and we had no HW experience...
It would have been nice to have for the 49/39 series...

Thanks for the reply! It's a shame that a 2x faster improved version of the Yorke SoC didn't even make it to silicon

Quote:Nevertheless, the later 50G arm based series were call the apple series because of the "new Yorke"...
At the time, now knowing what the "Yorke" stood for (even as I lived in Idaho by then!), "New Yorke" made me think of "the big apple", and I therefore decided to call the 50G/48GII++ (or whatever the name was) and 39GII+ by the name little, mid and big apple!

I didn't know this! Thanks for the info!

Quote:Someone like Jim Donneli might know more about the New Yorke.

Thanks very much for the information and suggestion Do you know how I might go about contacting Jim Donnelly about this?

Quote:If not real, it might be interesting to at least leave the statement in Wikipedia noted as an unverified anecdote that might be true or not, but is still part of the building of later calc history!

The problem is that it's official Wikipedia policy to remove unsourced statements and/or information, so, I'd need at least one reliable source to keep it in the article.

Quote:Cyrille

Regards,

Jonathan