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From: bobbyo@celerity.UUCP (Bob Ollerton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.arch
Subject: Re: RISC
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 19:31:36 EDT
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Gee, if someone built a computer that did really fast multiplication
(what ever "really fast" is) should they call it the "Rabbit"?

I am sure that there are many designs that offer both fast, slow, and
no hardware support for multiplication.  The user pays for  the cost
of support for multiplication hardware in the final analysis,
either in the cost of the system, or the time spent knitting
paper clips together while running a job.

Maybe designs with out fast multiplication (and floating point!)
should be called the "Lizzard".

Then somone can introduce the Micro-LizzardII.  ::)) <-echo.

bob.
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