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Subject: Re: Re: RISC/CISC - IBM mainframes
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 09:11:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 09:11:00 1985
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> ...
>
> A reasonable approach to producing CISC machines, then, would be to have the
> compiler writers design the instruction set; and to have the instruction set
> be changeable for different languages.
>
> ...
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> Full-Name:  J. Eric Roskos
> UUCP:       ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer

Didn't Burroughs do something like this with one of its computers?
I think it was the B1700.

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Frederic W. Brehm                princeton!siemens!fwb
Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories
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