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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!solman
  2. From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  4. Subject: Re: MINIMUM instruction set
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov13.141122.2437@athena.mit.edu>
  6. Date: 13 Nov 92 14:11:22 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov10.235849.19192@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
  8. Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
  9. Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  13. In article <1992Nov10.235849.19192@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
  14. |> I've heard that it is possible to implement all programming languages with
  15. |> seven instructions.  (Possible does not mean practicle.)  Does anyone know
  16. |> what these instructions are?  Is it possible to do all operations in less
  17. |> than seven instructions?
  18.  
  19. I am quite sure that it can be done with 1 instruction. I think you need to give
  20. us a definition of instruction.
  21.  
  22. Jason W. Solinsky
  23.