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From: baum@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Wirth's challenge (was Re: RISC)
Message-ID: <6901@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 15:42:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 15:42:05 1987
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Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <1047@winchester.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
>It is extremely interesting that there was no influence from the
>March 1982 Radin paper at ASPLOS; I would have thought that it would have
>been analyzed thoroughly at least for confirmation of direction,

A small addendum: while the 801 may not have played an enormous role,
System/370 certainly did! Many of the design decisions in Spectrum were in
reaction to problems we saw (& measured & were told about) in the 370 
architecture, from both IBM and Amdahl.

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