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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RISC Machines
Message-ID: <13963@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Sep 90 21:16:51 GMT
References: <8139.apple.net@pro-angmar>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <8139.apple.net@pro-angmar> m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) writes:
>What RISC machines you say?  How about the original, 65?02 based processors?

No, RISC architecture is not synonymous with puny, which would be a better
description of the 6502 architecture.  The 6502 is accumulator-oriented,
its opcodes follow no regular pattern, etc.  Not at all a RISC machine.