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- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.203449.3903@kithrup.COM>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:34:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.220112.20995@microsoft.com> <1992Jul20.092822.7666@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Jul21.040216.13502@primerd.prime.com>
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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- In article <1992Jul21.040216.13502@primerd.prime.com> danw@hobbes.prime.com (Dan Westerberg) writes:
- >Backwards compatability is definitely a pain in the butt. I've spent the last
- >3 years designing a new CPU for a proprietary architecture (Prime 50 Series)
- >that was originally a copy of a Honeywell machine from the early '70s.
-
- And at least three, probably four, possibly five, different instruction
- sets.
-
- I don't mean different the way the 8086, the 80286, and the 80386 are
- different; I mean different the way the VAX, the MIPS, and the 68000
- instruction sets are different.
-
- Prime's backwards compatibility is rather impressive...
-
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- Sean Eric Fagan | "My psychiatrist says I have a messiah
- sef@kithrup.COM | complex. But I forgive him."
- -----------------+ -- Jim Carrey
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
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