From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 52235879 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D1282A1A81; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:15:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9136A1A6D; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:15:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 38265A1A6D; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:15:16 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 2873 seconds by postgrey-1.35 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:15:15 AEST Received: from ipo0.cc.utah.edu (ipo0.cc.utah.edu [155.97.144.59]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE75BA1A6C for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:15:15 +1000 (AEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,311,1534831200"; d="scan'208";a="179500676" Received: from mail.math.utah.edu ([155.101.98.135]) by ipo0smtp.cc.utah.edu with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 27 Sep 2018 12:03:27 -0600 Received: from gamma.math.utah.edu (gamma.math.utah.edu [155.101.96.20]) by mail.math.utah.edu (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id w8RI3QG2021913; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:03:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gamma.math.utah.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gamma.math.utah.edu (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTP id w8RI3QKk181939; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:03:26 -0600 Received: (from beebe@localhost) by gamma.math.utah.edu (8.15.1/8.15.1/Submit) id w8RI3QtR181938; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:03:26 -0600 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:03:26 -0600 From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-US-Mail: "Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Message-ID: X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.8 (mail.math.utah.edu [155.101.98.135]); Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:03:26 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [TUHS] SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards. X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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 The short two-paragraph letter is from Fred Brooks, noted computer architect, author, and computer scientist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------