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From: underdog@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
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Subject: TRON (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
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Date: 8 Feb 90 18:46:21 GMT
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In article <76700123@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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|TRON was the only response I received via email that fit the
|requirements (a genuinely new CISC instruction set, not an enhancement
|to some old product).  How long ago was TRON conceived?

For those who are interested, the April-1987 issue of IEEE
Micro is devoted almost exclusively to the TRON architecture.
In fact, the front cover has a picture of the inventor--Prof.
Ken Sakamura.