Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bh1e+ From: bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: HLLs vs. Assembly Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 91 16:14:01 GMT References: Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: So I was reading Tae's message on RISC and CISC chips and just remembered a slightly humorous little thing I found out yesterday. Thursday I got my new toy in the mail, a Digitech GSP 21 Pro which is a DSP, etc sound processor specifically designed to be used with electric guitars. Anyway, supposedly the company did a lot of development on the thing using VLSI, etc. They call the engine a HISC processor. I'm thinking to myself, obviously, "What does the H stand for???". Well, yesterday while going thru the manual I came upon a list of acronym definitions. Whats DSP, whats VLSI, etc. HISC Happenin' Instruction Set Computer. Ahem. Only from guitar geeks...sheesh. Brendan G. Hoar bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu Apartment 1 Carnegie Mellon, Inc. 357 Melwood Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 621-8278