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[Phil Gustafson]

In article <289 at pallas.athenanet.com>, lbert359 at pallas.athenanet.com (Lee Bertagnolli) writes:
> IBM may have coined the term (RISC), but they certainly did not have the
> first commercially available systems.  As far back as 1972(!) there was
> the Burroughs B1000 series..

Another RISCish computer of the day was the Data General Nova.  It had eight
instructions, each modifiable with various skip and other conditions.  It
had a large number of general registers for the era -- four times as many as
the then-competitive DEC processor.  And _all_ arithmetic operations were
register-to-register.

All these characteristics are straight out of the RISC dogma book.


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