Re: Why RISC doesn't support large nuber of users?

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From: Brent Sterner
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 21:30

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In article <673@mmlai.UUCP>, burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes:
> In article <35387@mips.mips.COM>, mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
> 
> I hope the original poster was joking, but with all those gullible
> VAX architecture users out there, one can hardly take the chance :-)
> 
	No, he was serious...

>       < stuff deleted >
>
> Hmmm...  Not according to Digital Review, which talked about new 500+
> user RISC machines...

	Don't you see they cheated!  They added a *lot* of CISC
	instructions, but just didn't *use* them.  Must have added
	a lot of unused ucode instructions too (to get the sorts
	of numbers DR quotes).

	To the author of the DR article, I'm really disappointed!
	DR usually prides itself on catching cheats.  Shame, shame,
	ohh double-shame!  b.
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From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Why RISC doesn't support large nuber of users?
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Date: 6 Feb 90 21:30:20 GMT
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