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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bandwidth and RISC vs. CISC
Message-ID: <4074@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 4 May 89 13:08:23 GMT
References: <38853@bbn.COM> <423@bnr-fos.UUCP> <288@ctycal.UUCP> <10544@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <10544@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, yair@tybalt.caltech.edu (Yair Zadik) writes:
> A couple of years ago there was an article in Byte about a proposed design
> which they called WISC for Writeable Instruction Set Computer.
> ...each compiler could optimize the instruction set for its language.

Sounds like a great idea for an embedded controller, but can you imagine what
context switches would be like in a general purpose environment with multiple
supported compilers...?
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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