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From: robp@gumby.network.com (Rob Peglar)
Subject: Animal architecture (was: Re: small instructions)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 13:38:46 GMT

In article <25734@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>In article <BC-BR@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>|> [...]
>|> 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...
>
>The cheetah is a RISC architecture.  It contains nothing that isn't
>needed to run fast or to kill.
>
>The horse is also RISCish, but is optimized for longer distance running.
>
>Nature contains very few CISC architectures.

The most notable example being homo sapiens.

Rob
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