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From: ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Taco Bell Microsystems)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Proposed architecture characterization survey form
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Date: 20 Apr 88 01:43:33 GMT
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In article csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>>
>>   Pyramid: 90X
>
>Also Pyramid 9810, same architecture. It has been debated whether the Pyramid
>architecture is "really" RISC, since it has a rather bulky instruction set,

    Exactly.  I had included "RISC" and "claimed RISC".
    I guess one of the objectives of Earl's original 
    note is to settle this thing called "what is RISC".

>>   Apollo: <no. to-be-stamped :-)>
>
>The *system* has been announced as the Apollo 10000.

    Wrongo!  That is the machine. Now that I think back, the processor goes
    by the name - PRISM.  The "no-to-be-stamped" was a smiley remark to some
    previous discussion here about when & how machines/processors get their
    marketing ids.

>A mildly interesting point is the success of commercial RISC products that
>have been in the marketplace for a while.

    lower development cost, better simulation tools, Unix and compatibility
    being a non-issue are partly responsible for RISC successes. 

    Query:  Are there any RISC(y) processors that is running an OS other
    than UNIX?

><csg>

Renu