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Article #28309Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ?
From: david j wells
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1987 18:25
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1987 18:25
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In article <21@lzaz.ATT.COM> bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK) writes: >One major point about RISC that I haven't seen mentioned, is that a simpler >instruction set implies that a LOT less silicon is devoted to micro-code. Also the simpler silicon is much easier to develop. Less time. Less money. Fewer bugs. (kind of like the diffference between coding a linked list v. coding a B-tree ...) The complexity is moved into software (generally the compiler) and is therfore relatively trivial to modify (compared to fixing silicon). Can you say 386? :-) David -- ----- David J Wells lll-crg!csustan!dave dave@csustan.uucp
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!csustan!dave From: dave@csustan.UUCP (david j wells) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ? Message-ID: <975@csustan.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 14:25:01 EDT Article-I.D.: csustan.975 Posted: Thu Oct 8 14:25:01 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 09:17:48 EDT References: <8709181728.AA13664@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1623@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1717@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <21@lzaz.ATT.COM> Reply-To: dave@csustan.UUCP (david j wells) Organization: CSU, Stanislaus; Turlock, California Lines: 16