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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:57:37 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>Note that the “big bang” arrival of RISC in the 
>latter 1980s is pretty much in agreement with his timeline.

Correlation does not prove causation.  And when the facts (performance
of cacheless and small-cache RISCs) are counterevidence of his
explanation, his explanation is obviously wrong.

- anton
-- 
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>