Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: RISC as a "technology window"?
Message-ID: <1989Mar26.002605.11583@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1552@vicom.COM> <15690@cup.portal.com> <1562@vicom.COM> <717@m3.mfci.UUCP> <1188@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 89 00:26:05 GMT

In article <1188@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>... An architecture, language, or programmer not capable of
>taking advantage of this must be considered limited.

All architectures, languages, and programmers are limited.  The question
is whether the limitations interfere with solving the problems you care
about.  Manufacturers, of necessity, care much more about the 5th-95th
percentile requirements than about the outliers (unless the outliers are
likely to buy lots of hardware).
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