Re: Building it... & MISC

[Penio Penev <penev@xxxxxxx>]

On 17 Nov 1997, Dan C. Rinnert wrote:

> And, back on the sybject of MISC <G>, does the concept of MISC extend beyond
> the processor?  In other words, in a MISC world, would individual computers
> perform only minimal tasks, like computer A would perform word processing and
> computer B perform communications functions?  And, computer A & B would
> network to transmit information?  This is an extremely simplified example,
> but I hope it conveys my conceptual question.

No.

MISC is a minimal *instruction* set, meaning that it is the minimal set of
instructions to build a *general purpose* computer.

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