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From: rteasdal@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Falconer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Porting OSes
Keywords: KeyKOS Multics 68000 386
Message-ID: <272cdde6.7069@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 90 01:56:54 GMT
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In article <41894@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> axaris@acsu.buffalo.edu (vassilios e axaris) writes:
>>-- 
>Here at SUNY Buffalo such topics are covered (to my surprise at first)
>in a course on comp. architecture by a professor who's regarded as an authority
>in microprogrammable (completely horizontal microcode) systems.

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>Needless to say that he was against the RISC philosophy for
>the simple reason, that all these complex functions could not be supported
>efficiently due to the approach's simplicity.
>Anyone care to start a discussion on these topics? :-)


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