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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of RISC
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 00:56:56 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:30:58 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:

> I have periodically claimed that John did 801/RISC to go the extreme
> opposite of Future System (mid-70s there was internal adtech conference
> where we presented 370 16-cpu multiprocessor and the 801/RISC group
> presented RISC).

That was certainly a much more fruitful effort. IBM’s attempt to turn ROMP 
into an actual product may have been an embarrassment (the RT PC), but 
they more than redeemed themselves with the later POWER line, which 
remains a performance leader to this day.