npg@sundc.UUCP (Neil Groundwater) (03/20/86)
Capitol Shell Meeting Announcment --------------------------------- Everyone Welcome! DATE: March 26, 1986 TIME: 7:30 P.M. PLACE: Best Western Westpart Hotel Tyson's Corner, VA Off Beltway on Rt. 7 West 1 mile ROOM: Shenandoah Room SPONSOR: Altos Computer Systems 8381 Old Courthouse Road Vienna, VA 22180 (703) 442-7500 Attn: Jim Rafferty TOPIC: Introduction to RISC Theory By Mark Hahn Mark will cover the following topics: Section 1 - Introduction - Definition of RISC - History Section 2 - Characteristics of RISC Processors - Restrictions - Register Stacks - Pipelines Section 3 - Advantages of RISC Design - Processing Speed - Design Issues Section 4 - RISC vs. Complex Instruction Set Computers - Software Complexity - Benchmarking About the Speaker: Mark Hahn works for Pyramid Technology as a Systems Engineer and has been dealing with RISC computers for the past year and a half.