Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!udel!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!pyramid!voder!apple!baum 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 Article-I.D.: apple.6901 Posted: Fri Dec 4 15:42:05 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 03:38:28 EST References: <902@mips.UUCP> <1775@cognos.UUCP> <5157@columbia.edu> Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 13 -------- [] >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. -- {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!apple!baum (408)973-3385