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From: roger@telesoft.UUCP (Roger Arnold @prodigal)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: brash micros versus the Big Iron: not yet
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Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 17:15:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  2 17:15:09 1987
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> Many of the software people are among those clamoring for simplicity of
> hardware design, mostly because the hardware designers have such a history
> of getting things wrong when they try to be clever.

Well, that's not entirely fair.  "Clever" hardware designs have
generally worked out fine, for the particular language/environment
that the designers were thinking about when they did the designs.  
And if the designers up front about what they're doing, specialized 
designs can be very successful.  The problem comes when they try to
get clever in systems intended to be general.