C machines

[John Mashey]

In article <4159 at june.cs.washington.edu> pardo at uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) writes:
>I'm looking for references to C-oriented architectures.

>I already know about the AT&T CRISP.  I remember a while back that there
>was a commotion about the (forgive me, but I know I've got this wrong)
>the RU2000 (or something like that) processor and it's optimizing compiler.

MIPS R2000: look at 3 articles in Proc. IEEE COMPCON, March 86,
SanFrancisco.

Note the distinction between "C-oriented" and "designed with C in mind,
as well as FORTRAN, PASCAL, etc."  The R2000 is of the latter class.

Most RISCs are at least decent for C, although RISC aficionados argue
fiercely on the details.
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