12 Jun
2019
12 Jun
'19
2:32 p.m.
Alan,
I especially appreciated he not only offered an
opinion - his specific
ideas on where the boarder between RISC and CISC was - but then provided
an analysis of a bunch of processors based on those criteria and an
analysis of the outliers that challenged his criteria. It's a well
thought-out and explained opinion that just doesn't happen often on the
Internet.
It does happen quite a lot but is drowned out by the far larger volume
of nonsense.
I assume from RS/6000, he meant generally the Power
gen 1 architecture.
And IBM RT/PC he meant ROMP. I'm pretty sure Alpha was well established
when he wrote the analysis. Would have been nice to see that included.
The text explains the situation in 1991 and the Alpha was released in
1992.
-- Jecel