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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
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Subject: Re: [really, CISC-to-the-max]
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Date: 16 Aug 89 20:34:22 GMT
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I remember reading in an old AFIPS paper that von Neumann believed computers
of the future would all have the SQRT instruction, because of the importance
of square root in coordinate geometry.