Re: TRON (a little long)

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From: Tom Limoncelli
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1989 05:19

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In article <226@arnor.UUCP> uri@arnor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes:

> From article <32424@apple.Apple.COM>, by baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum):
> > How about because the TRON hardware architecture is a really ugly
> > CISC architecture which looks worse to build in hardware than the
> > only somewhat ugly CISCs we already have to deal with.
> >
> Sorry, but I don't remember such terminology in Computer Science - ugly,
> nice, beautiful...

Strange.  I hear and use those terms all the time.  I guess that's
what I get for being a CS major at a liberal arts college.

I recommend you read "A Mathematician's Appology" by G.H. Hardy for a
"technical" definition of "ugly".

-Tom
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From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc,comp.realtime,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
Message-ID: <Jul.7.01.19.39.1989.7792@pilot.njin.net>
Date: 7 Jul 89 05:19:41 GMT
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