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From: leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
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Date: 28 Jun 89 21:54:29 GMT
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In article <518@unicads.UUCP>, les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) writes...
>In article <156@van-bc.UUCP> sl@.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>>If it's design/architecture dates to the late eighties its a .......
>							     _R_I_S_C_

..which, of course, should not be taken to mean that it has a reduced
instruction set (or whatever you want to translate RISC into), just that the
marketing people knew that "RISC" was the "buzzword of the year" and a great
way to make a new machine sound better, stronger, faster....

							-- Jerry