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From: bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case)
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Subject: Re: RISC Survey Articles
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 13:38:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 13:38:18 1987
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In article <3119@sol.ARPA> crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>RISC Survey Articles:
>    Charles Gimarc and Veljko Milutinovic
>    "A Survey of RISC Processors and Computers of the Mid-1980s"
>    Computer, volume 20, number 9, pages 59-69, September 1987

I think a much better survey article is Patterson's "Reduced Instruction
Set Computers" from CACM, Jan. 1985 (vol. 28, #1).  I guess it depends on
whether you want to know about RISC in general or about instantiations of
RISC.  I have a personal problem with Multinovic's article because it 
confuses the Am29000 and the Am29300 family; all the features attributed
to the Am29000 are actually features of the Am29300 (a totally different
beast).  It is hard for me to think of the Am29300 family as a RISC since
it is intended to be the core of a microcoded implmenetation....