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How IBM Stumbled Onto RISC (hackaday.com)
12 points by sgbeal on Jan 1, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



The uarch has some interesting progeny: on one hand, it led to the RS/6000; on the other hand, it led to… the microcode interpreter for a System/370-era VAX-class computer. Interesting opposites.




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