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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC vs CISC (very long)
Message-ID: <4534@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Apr 91 16:30:35 GMT
References: <1991Apr03.232400.1560@kithrup.COM> <1991Apr7.064855.25469@zoo.toronto.edu> <537@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <2419@spim.mips.COM> <1991Apr19.133634.15241@odin.diku.dk>
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In article <1991Apr19.133634.15241@odin.diku.dk> torbenm@diku.dk (Torben [gidius Mogensen) writes:

>You might add ARM to the list

>I'm not certain about the age, but it was, I think, the first
>commercially available RISC processor.

I'm not certain either (surely there's someone from Acorn out there?) but
it was certainly being discussed at Acorn in the summer of 1983.

-- Richard
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