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From: herwin@pro-novapple.cts.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: RISC Machines
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Date: 28 Sep 90 12:00:34 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu

>RISC machines execute an instruction per cycle.
Well, they can execute more than that, but they typically don't.  They average
something slower than an instruction per cycle since most code doesn't use the
parallelism in the architecture.
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