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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: stack machines (Burroughs)
Keywords: RISC, real-time
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Date: 14 Jun 88 15:40:14 GMT
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In article <853@wucs2.UUCP> jps@wucs2.UUCP (James Sterbenz) writes:
>In article <3693@saturn.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) writes:
>>Well there are different meanings to "sophisticated", but for real
>>sophistry you need to see a system that uses a lot of letter
>>abbreviations like JES and MVS and VS1 and VM and CMS and OS and ...
>>where each flavor needs a different compiler and file system.
>
>I personally find the 5000/6000/7000/A architectural basis very elegant,
>but c'mon, get your history right ... 

Guess I should have put a ;-)   after "sophistry" -  Of course, the B5000
and its successors are the only machines I would call "elegant".  All these
letter abbreviations are just what I hear coming over the partition from
co-workers trying to get the latest machine from that three-letter company
into production.

For further reference in that particular debate see the article "A Tale of
Two Computers"  in the May, 1977 issue of IEEE Computer magazine.

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