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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ZISC computers
Message-ID: <1920@garth.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 06:21:53 GMT
References: <22115@sgi.SGI.COM>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
Lines: 13

Actually a conceptual ZISC does exists. Each instruction consists of 4
address and no opcode:
	<a,b,c>

Which means
	MEM[a] := MEM[a]-MEM[b]
	goto c if MEM[a]<0
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                                                   -- s m ryan
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|    ....such cultural highlights as    |    Nature is Time's way of having    |
|    Alan Thicke, and, uh,....          |    pausible deniability.             |
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