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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
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Subject: Re: References wanted on RISC architectures.
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Date: 15 Sep 89 18:01:53 GMT
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>	I wish to learn about RISC architectures, especially
>the MIPS, and SPARC. I would really appreciate, if someone could
>give me pointers to the books, journals, articles etc. explaining
>these (and other) RISC architectures, and also comparing them.

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