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From: matloff@heather.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff)
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Subject: Re: MISC
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Date: 19 Sep 90 00:32:33 GMT
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In article <1990Sep14.205913.2146@cs.rochester.edu> crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>In article <1990Sep14.173018.10197@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
>kahn@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Shahin Kahn) writes:

%>The latest issue of Supercomputer Review has a little report on a company
%>working a "Minimum" instruction-set computer.  What is this?  Very fast
%>boolean algebra?

>I do not know what that project is, but I once played with an instruction set
>with two instructions: "increment" and "decrement and branch conditionally".

I think Daniel Tabak, now at Geoge Mason University and then at Boston
University (?), wrote a couple of papers on a "SISC" design  --  "single
instruction set computer."  No, it wasn't a Turing machine. :-)  I think
he wrote something up in the European microprocessors journal.  It also
might be referenced in Tabak's book on RISC.

   Norm