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.
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org