Re: [TUHS] SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.

[Nemo <cym224@gmail.com>]

On 27/09/2018, 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

Also of interest may be the video "SPARC at 25"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ukXhEaYGI ), wherein Patterson,
Joy, and others discuss SPARC.  (Joy's comment on register windows is
interesting and matches Brooks' remark.)

N.

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