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From: crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Comp. Architecture & Organization (the class)
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Date: 4 May 88 13:59:18 GMT
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In article <25750@clyde.ATT.COM> gwu@clyde.UUCP (George Wu) writes:
> ... [architecture class] ...  The actual architectures we studied were the
>PDP-8, PDP-11, VAX, and MC68000. ...

This strikes me as a rather narrow view of architecture.  There are no stack
machines, no vector machines, no SIMD machines, etc.  An architecture class
that examines only main-stream machines will probably leave students with such
a narrow view of architecture that their understanding of the possibilities may
be stunted.
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  Lawrence Crowl		716-275-9499	University of Rochester
		      crowl@cs.rochester.edu	Computer Science Department
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