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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: small instructions
Message-ID: <BC-BR@xds13.ferranti.com>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
References: <13395@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <195@armltd.uucp>
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 18:04:42 GMT

In article <195@armltd.uucp>, abaum (Allen Baum) writes:
> (Donald Lindsay) writes:
> >In article <1991Jun9.214548.23661@syacus.acus.oz.au> 
> >(William Mason) writes:
> >>If RISC is *it*  ... How come the guy with short legs
> >>can't winn the olympic foot races ???

> >If long legs are *it*, how come you can't run faster than my dog?

> Because dogs are superscalar, er, superpedal?

OK, so how come a cheetah is faster than a horse? It's superpipelined!
And a kangaroo has fewer processors but uses a bigger cache...
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Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"
