A performance evaluation of the Intel iAPX 432

ABSTRACT

We describe art experiment to test the 432 as a high-level language uniprocessor by comparing it with the 8086, 68000, and VAX-11/780 for four integer and character programs written in Ada, C, and Pascal.

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