Capitol Shell UNIX Users Group Meeting

[Neil Groundwater]

Capitol Shell Meeting Announcment
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Everyone Welcome!


DATE:		March 26, 1986

TIME:		7:30 P.M.

PLACE:		Best Western Westpart Hotel
		Tyson's Corner, VA
		Off Beltway on Rt. 7 West 1 mile

ROOM:		Shenandoah Room

SPONSOR:	Altos Computer Systems
		8381 Old Courthouse Road
		Vienna, VA 22180
		(703) 442-7500
		Attn: Jim Rafferty

TOPIC:		Introduction to RISC Theory
		By Mark Hahn

		Mark will cover the following topics:

		Section 1	- Introduction
				- Definition of RISC
				- History

		Section 2	- Characteristics of RISC Processors
				- Restrictions
				- Register Stacks
				- Pipelines

		Section 3	- Advantages of RISC Design
				- Processing Speed
				- Design Issues

		Section 4	- RISC vs. Complex Instruction Set Computers
				- Software Complexity
				- Benchmarking




About the Speaker:

Mark Hahn works for Pyramid Technology as a Systems Engineer and has
been dealing with RISC computers for the past year and a half.