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From: watson@convexs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: An idea I'm kicking around
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 17:21:00 EST
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I believe the Berkeley RISC I and RISC II chips did just this.
See the excellent doctoral thesis by Katavenis (spelling?)
from UCB. This thesis won the ACM doctoral award a year or two ago.