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From: shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why The Move To RISC Architectures?  ('386 vs. RISC)
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.004840.6473@ultra.com>
Date: 21 Mar 90 00:48:40 GMT
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>About a decade ago, it started
>to become clear that executing simple instructions very quickly works
>much better.

Apparently this was clear to Seymour Cray a lot earlier than that:
the 6600 in 1964.

Steve Jay
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