Sujet : Re: Instruction counts (was: Decrement And Branch)
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 16. Aug 2024, 08:06:11
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 05:23:30 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:
... instruction count was not
among the criteria that John Mashey identified as discerning between
RISC and non-RISC (not surprising given non-RISCs like PDP-11).
Why is that particular criterion, of all of them, in the name, then?
At one point I thought it should be “IRSC”, for “Increased Register Set
Computer” ...