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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Why The Move To RISC Architectures?  ('386 vs. RISC)
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Date: 21 Mar 90 12:41:53 GMT
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In article <40970054@hpindda.HP.COM>, kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) wrote:
}were being used 90% of the time.  Even though some snazzy, neato, high-level
}instructions existed (who can forget the VAX polynomial instruction?), the

If you think that one is neat, what about the VAX string-edit instruction?
Feed it the address of a string and the address of a list of edit commands
and let it fly.  You could probably write the equivalent of the Unix SED
in about fifty lines of VAX assembler....

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