Re: CISC Silent Spring

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From: Andrew Klossner
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 19:57

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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]
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