Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: VAX RISC Message-ID: <2454@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 1 Nov 90 11:29:21 GMT References: <10948@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 10 In article <10948@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes: > DEC has announced that it will build a "VAX RISC". I haven't heard > any details: so, let's speculate. ... > What about the VAX vector unit? ... If you look at it you will see that the design is already 'RISCy'. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland dik@cwi.nl