January 27,1988

		GigaMOS Systems Software Product report.


			Overview

	The purpose of this report is to set forth the status, options,
resource requirements and schedules of the Software effort of GigaMOS
Systems.  The unifying core of GigaMOS Systems is the provision of
hardware and software to support A.I. applications of the future.
(Although we expect that such hardware and software will prove useful
in many other situations as well of course.)  Our focus is on tagged
as opposed to conventional machines.  LISP, of course, is our primary
language, there may be some opportunity to come to terms with C as well.

			Background

	The primary hardware project of the company is the Falcon project,
sometimes also known as the K project.  The Falcon processor is the only
known processor designed after it became feasible to locate the entire
primary "core" memory on the processor board itself (as opposed to communicating
over a relatively narrow "bus").  Among known processor designs, it is
the only one to incorporate CALL Hardware, in which it goes a step beyond
the most advanced of the RISC machines.  In short, these features and others
give it a performance advantage of at least a demonstrated factor of 3 in
benchmarks as compared to the current market leader for comparable machines
(the TI Explorer II).  Since the E-II is currently running with a clock
almost twice as fast, it could be reasonably argued that we have an architectural
advantage of approximately a factor of five.  (Note also that TI's anticipated
Mac II board is only approximately one half as fast as the Explorer II).



Moby Address

Current Status

Path Ahead  (central issues)
  Central core
  "Lambda Compatibility"
  "TI Compatibility"
  New Standards and Systems.
    CLOS
    New Window System

Supporting Issues
  Networking