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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: is Vax adressing sane today
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 20:20:26 -0000 (UTC)
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Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> schrieb:

[VAX]

> They had no idea that they would be building eight wide designs.
> This is the critical idea that made RISC popular.

Nope.

The early RISC designs aimed for one instruction per cycle, achieved
maybe 0.7.