From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:41:55 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180925184155.50F5518C08D@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Tony Finch
> This paper has a nice survey of instruction set densities
And the winner is.... the PDP-11!
I'm not too surprised by this; back in the days of core memory (and limited,
at that - the first PDP-11's came standard with ... 8KB of memory :-), having
the denset possible code had real savings.
Noel
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2018-09-25 18:41 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2018-09-27 19:34 ` Nemo
2018-09-27 20:30 ` Dan Cross
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2018-09-27 7:35 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-09-27 7:52 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-25 12:12 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-25 14:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-26 19:31 ` Derek Fawcus
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2018-09-23 18:37 ` Don Hopkins
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2018-09-23 21:17 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-24 11:25 ` Tony Finch
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2018-09-26 18:24 ` Donald ODona
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