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Article #5596Re: Why RISC doesn't support large nuber of users?
From: Roger B.A. Klorese
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 23:11
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 23:11
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In article <730@auto-trol.UUCP> marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) writes:
>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 :-)
>>
>>> The problem with Reduced Instruction Set Computers is that the
>>> instruction set determines how many users a computer can handle.
>>
>
> ... I'v been always considered a VAX bigot, but enough is enough.
> But expressing number of users machine can handle in terms of the
> instruction set size is rudiculous. May be I don't get the joke.
The problem is you *did* get the joke. That's it. It was a *joke*, see?!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp!deimos!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!servitude!rogerk From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Why RISC doesn't support large nuber of users? Message-ID: <35653@mips.mips.COM> Date: 7 Feb 90 23:11:20 GMT References: <25c936b0141@vms.huji.ac.il> <35387@mips.mips.COM> <673@mmlai.UUCP> <730@auto-trol.UUCP> Sender: news@mips.COM Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 22