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- From: pl@hakki.cs.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti,,,OHJ,J8344)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: MINIMUM instruction set
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 15:04:12 GMT
- Organization: Technical University of Tampere, Dep. of Computer Science ,Finland
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- Message-ID: <1dr7dcINNa07@cs.tut.fi>
- References: <1992Nov10.235849.19192@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Originator: pl@hakki.cs.tut.fi
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- From article <1992Nov10.235849.19192@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, by val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner):
- > I've heard that it is possible to implement all programming languages with
- > seven instructions. (Possible does not mean practicle.) Does anyone know
- > what these instructions are? Is it possible to do all operations in less
- > than seven instructions?
- >
-
- Some time ago there was rumour about one instruction RISC,
- so called ultrarisc, which is capable to do everything.
- This was not practical. (But disassemler is easy to write :-)
-
- (Instruction is reverse substract and skip if borrow with
- some additional architectural requirements)
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- pl@cs.tut.fi ! All opinions expressed above are
- Pertti Lehtinen ! purely offending and in subject
- Tampere University of Technology ! to change without any further
- Software Systems Laboratory ! notice
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