Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A simple question on RISC
Message-ID: <1988Nov3.185220.28758@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6544@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <75577@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 88 18:52:20 GMT

In article <75577@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
>... If we ignore Seymour (always a mistake), the early
>RISC prople were IBM, UCB and Stanford. With the exception of Seymour,
>all of these early RISC machines were too simple.

Uh, do remember that the SPARC is essentially the UCB machine plus some very
minor (although useful) improvements.  There was nothing terribly wrong with
most of those early machines.
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