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From: lbert359@pallas.athenanet.com (Lee Bertagnolli)
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Subject: Re: New product?
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Date: 9 Feb 90 19:14:38 GMT
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IBM may have coined the term (RISC), but they certainly did not have the
first commercially available systems.  As far back as 1972(!) there was
the Burroughs B1000 series, which was not a RISC machine by the current
definition, but it had only 26 instructions.  There was at least one other
system on the market before that.

To say IBM invented RISC is like saying IBM invented virtual memory.