On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 3:16 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>
wrote:

> As a followup to discussions on this thread about hardware
> architectures, some of you may be interested in this new letter
> published today:
>
>         Letters to the editor: Hennessy and Patterson on the roots of RISC
>         Comm. ACM 61(10) 6 (2018)
>         https://doi.org/10.1145/3273019
>         http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3280000/3273019/p6-friedman.pdf


Aside: This is taking an inordinately long time to download from the ACM.
It must be "the TUHS effect."

        - Dan C.


> The short two-paragraph letter is from Fred Brooks, noted computer
> architect, author, and computer scientist.
>
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