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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > Initially, i thought RISC was a crazy idea, compared to
> > the ultra-CISC VAX-11 instruction set...but then when I
> > read about the issues with page faults... I was almost
> > immediately convinced that yes indeed, the RISC guys did
> > have a very, very important point, and that the Clipper
> > chip and others weren't so crazy after all.
> I believe the Clipper chip was part of a U.S. government initiated
> encryption system that included a back door.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Wrong Clipper -- poor wording on my part.

Sun workstations originally used Motorola 680x0 CPUs,
and then Sun developed their own CPU, which was called
"Clipper".  I believe it was the first CPU in the
SPARC line of CPUs.



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