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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
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Organization: California Institute of Technology
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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