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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CISC Silent Spring
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Date: 9 Feb 90 19:57:27 GMT
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> When was the last time someone introduced a new CISC architecture?

How about the i960?  Object-oriented instructions with tags, and
"silicon operating system" features, though you'd never know it from
the externally released documentation.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]