Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: P1754 Message-ID: <1990Nov16.225515.494@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 22:55:15 GMT In article aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes: >Are comp.arch readers aware of IEEE Standards Project "P1754: Standard >for an Open Microprocessor Architecture", whose purpose is to define >an open, non-proprietary, microprocessor architecture, based on SPARC... Gah. It wasn't bad enough that every manufacturer managed to get his favorite bus canonized as an IEEE standard? Now we're in for the same thing with instruction sets. What a waste of time and effort. -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry