RISC vs. CISC (yet again)

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From: larry hughes
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 13:59

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Those interested in the RISC vs. CISC issues will find an interesting
sidebar article by Hal Hardenbergh in the Feb '90 issue of Dr. Dobb's
Journal (yes, a software rag!), page 130, titled "Religious Artifacts 
and Code Museums."

His claims (and seems to support fairly well) that "a hell of a lot
of concurrency" is what we need in the new generations of microprocessors...


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