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From: ram@nucsrl.UUCP (Renu Raman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: To RISC or to CISC .....(was V60/V70...)
Message-ID: <3810033@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 12:22:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 12:22:20 1987
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[Our news I/O is so disordered that I wonder at times if my response
 reaches before the actual posting:-)].

John Mashey, rightly pointed out:

>I wouldn't call the TRON architecture RISCy [note that this isn't
>saying good or bad, 

  As Mashey was out of the country (I am becoming clairvoyant) 
  and my thesis being due to-day, this
  reply comes late.  Correction on fixed format instructions
  (for the mitsubishi CPU) is in order.  

>.............
>just that it tends to not be much like what most
>people think are RISC machines]:

>``What's a RISC?''
>ANS: any machine announced since 1983.

    why 1983?  I thought 1981.


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P.S:  Its good that somebody like John polices this newsgroup.