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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC v. CISC --(really Cyber 170)
Message-ID: <2042@garth.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 00:19:38 GMT
References: <595030314.2944@minster.york.ac.uk> <1762@scolex> <6475@june.cs.washington.edu> <5351@cadnetix.COM> <1973@garth.UUCP> <7730@boring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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> > today's trivia question:
> > 
> > what does compass abbreviate?
> > -- 
>COMPrehensive ASSembler?

COMPrehensive ASsembly System, which is why the product ident is CPn instead
of CAn. (Product ident is CDC's 3 letter name for a product.)
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