Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!armltd!abaum
From: abaum (Allen Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: small instructions
Message-ID: <195@armltd.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 91 10:25:18 GMT
References: <13395@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Sender: abaum@armltd.uucp
Distribution: comp
Organization: A.R.M. Ltd, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambs, UK
Lines: 16

(Donald Lindsay) writes:

>In article <1991Jun9.214548.23661@syacus.acus.oz.au> 
>(William Mason) writes:
>>If RISC is *it*  ... How come the guy with short legs
>>can't winn the olympic foot races ???
>
>If long legs are *it*, how come you can't run faster than my dog?
>

Because dogs are superscalar, er, superpedal?


******************************************************
Allen J. Baum                        baum@apple.com
******************************************************