Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!idec!camcon!igp 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> Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK Lines: 14 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: :-) -- UUCP: ...!ukc!camcon!igp | Cambridge Consultants Ltd | Ian Phillipps or: igp@camcon.uucp | Science Park, Milton Road |----------------- Phone: +44 223 358855 | Cambridge CB4 4DW, England |