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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc,comp.realtime,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
Message-ID: <32424@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 89 16:50:26 GMT
References: <382@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <382@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> jdm@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James D Mooney) writes:
>
>This is a request for opinions (and an offer of information)
>about the Japanese TRON project.
>One of the TRON project achievements to date is a standard 32-bit
>microprocessor architecture which has been implemented by Hitachi,
>Fujitsu, Toshiba, Oki, and others.

How about because the TRON hardware architecture is a really ugly
CISC architecture which looks worse to build in hardware than the
only somewhat ugly CISCs we already have to deal with.

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