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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why The Move To RISC Architectures?  ('386 vs. RISC)
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Date: 21 Mar 90 13:06:46 GMT
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In article <28012@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes:
>Finally, why is everyone so excited about RISC? You would think
>that the trend would be just the opposite - toward more and more
>complex instruction sets - in order to increase the execution
>speed of very high-level instructions by putting them in silicon
>and in order to make implementation of high-level language
>constructs easier.

Well, first of all, that should be "I would think," as, obviously, not
everybody thinks like you do.

Second of all, my immediate reaction on reading this was, "And thus the VAX
is born."  I think that says it all 8-).  Doubtless dozens of people will
post and flood your mailbox about this, but, if they don't, I'll be glad to
8-).

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