Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Dasgupta: What isn't RISC (?)
Message-ID: <1989Oct22.044030.28506@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Oct19.155752.13028@mentor.com> <29780@obiwan.mips.COM>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 89 04:40:30 GMT

In article <29780@obiwan.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
>   >>5.  The use of hardwired rather than microcoded control.
>
>But this precludes Clipper and the i960.

Sounds reasonable to me.  The Clipper became a "RISC" retroactively when
their marketing department discovered the new buzzword, as I recall.  And
one hears rumors that the i960 was originally going to be much more complex
than it is now, and the effects linger in the design.
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