Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!mangler From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Don Speck) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: RISC a short answer?? Message-ID: <6467@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 8 May 88 23:41:08 GMT References: <1036@nusdhub.UUCP> <1988May3.224604.2252@utzoo.uucp> <388@m3.mfci.UUCP> Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 6 Summary: acronym Like it or not, we're stuck with the acronym. RISC used to mean Reduced Instruction Set Complexity. What we really want it to mean is: Removal of Inherently Sequential Constructs. Don Speck speck@vlsi.caltech.edu {amdahl,ames!elroy}!cit-vax!speck