Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sri-unix!garth!smryan 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 Lines: 13 > > 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.) -- -- s m ryan +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Good day-eh. Je me souviens.| +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+