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From: igp@camcon.uucp (Ian Phillipps)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Eternal RISC v CISC (was Re: The VAX Always Uses Fewer Instructions)
Message-ID: <1627@titan.camcon.uucp>
Date: 30 Jun 88 08:22:51 GMT
References: <270@laic.UUCP>
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From article <270@laic.UUCP>, by darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson):
> In article <1277@basser.oz>, steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell) writes:
>> >In article <914@entropy.ms.washington.edu> mcglk@scott.biostat.washington.edu writes:
> Perhaps it would be possible for someone to come up with an
> 'assembler-compiler' that would accept a CISC instruction set and
> generate RISC code.

Sun have - you can access it on their Sun4 using the command "cc".

ok ok:   :-)
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