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From: bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
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Date: 2 Jul 89 17:31:45 GMT
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>Really?  Wow.  I'm sure Seymour Cray, who designed, in the early-to-mid
>'60's, a machine with 70-odd instructions, and most of the features associated
>with "RISC," would be very surprised to hear that.

(I suspect Cray doesn't give a rat's ass.)

>RISC, as a concept, is decades old, now.  Cray did the Cybers that way to
>make them run quickly; at about the same time, IBM had a research project
>going on to see if it could, indeed, run more quickly.  I'm fairly certain

Sean, what project did IBM have in the mid '60s that investigated RISC?  I
am not aware of such a project.