Re: RISC vs CISC (rational discussion, not religious wars)

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From: Casey Leedom
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1989 23:07

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| From: ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby)
| 
| Aside from the obvious hardware waste (I've heard of working mainframes
| dismantled with hammers and thrown in garbage trucks) there are very
| substantial software porting costs.

  Nothing against the rest of your argument, but I think you over-
estimate the cost of porting software in the contemporary world.
Companies are tending to write less and less of their software in a
machine dependent manner (excepting companies intent on destroying
themselves.)  There is machine dependent code being written, but it's
being isolated from the main line code in well defined abstractions.

Casey

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Subject: Re: RISC vs CISC (rational discussion, not religious wars)
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