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From: sgolson@pyrite.East.Sun.COM (Steve Golson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CISC Silent Spring
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Date: 7 Feb 90 15:43:11 GMT
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In article <3300098@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> When was the last time someone introduced a new CISC architecture?
> How many years has it been?  New versions of old chips ('486, '040,
> etc) do not count as "new architectures".

Since no one else has mentioned it... what about TRON?

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