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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc,comp.realtime,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
Message-ID: <3973@eos.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 89 17:45:01 GMT
References: <382@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <32424@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Followup-To: comp.os.misc
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <32424@apple.Apple.COM> baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes:
>[]
>>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)
>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.

The same can also sort of be said about the OS.  I have attended
two IEEE COMPCON sessions and have scanned the Proceedings as well.

There are too many newsgroups on this, so I'm only following up to os.misc.

Another gross generalization from

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