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- From: shyamal@seas.smu.edu (Shyamal Prasad)
- Subject: Re: MINIMUM instruction set
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.180649.27777@seas.smu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:06:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.235849.19192@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
- >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?
- >
-
- Pardon the theoretical slant - but a Turning machine is *the* RISC, is
- it not? That would be much less than seven instructions (I do not
- remember exactly how the turning machine instructions work :-), and
- each could go really *fast*.....
-
- Programming would be a bit (!) if a nightmare though, but I wonder if
- it would be more difficult than a move machine or something. I am
- however saying this from memory and off the cuff so I may be all
- wrong.
- --
- Shyamal Prasad, Department of Computer Science
- Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 72275
-