kjm@ut-emx.UUCP (03/30/90)
In article <1990Mar29.164944.19446@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu. edu (Mark Riordan) writes: > Whoops--my previous message got garbled. I said: > > The 6600 was a RISC machine in my opinion--but it could easily have > gotten by with fewer instructions--especially some of those fancy > addressing modes. Huh? *What* fancy addressing modes? I'd not label the increment-unit instructions that way. Why do you? > The Cyber 70 series (with byte-oriented string instructions) was > an embarrassment. Right. Obviously somebody thought the gadgetry would sell... -- The above viewpoints are mine. They are unrelated to those of anyone else, including my wife, our cats, and my employer. Kenneth J. Montgomery Senior Operating System Specialist kjm@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu University of Texas System Center for High-Performance Computing