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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: RISC/CISC - IBM mainframes
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 19:36:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 19:36:28 1985
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> A reasonable approach to producing CISC machines ... to have the 
> instruction set be changeable for different languages.  

If the machine is going to do multi-programming, it's going to need
bank-switched micro-instruction memory or the like.
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
               ^^^^^--- soon to be CalComp