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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Why RISC doesn't support large nuber of users?
Message-ID: <35653@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 23:11:20 GMT
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In article <730@auto-trol.UUCP> marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) writes:
>In article <673@mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes:
>>In article <35387@mips.mips.COM>, mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
>>
>>I hope the original poster was joking, but with all those gullible
>>VAX architecture users out there, one can hardly take the chance :-)
>>
>>> The problem with Reduced Instruction Set Computers is that the
>>> instruction set determines how many users a computer can handle.
>>
>
>   ... I'v been always considered a VAX bigot, but enough is enough.
>   But expressing number of users machine can handle in terms of the
>   instruction set size is rudiculous. May be I don't get the joke.

The problem is you *did* get the joke.  That's it.  It was a *joke*, see?!

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