As a followup to discussions on this thread about hardware
architectures, some of you may be interested in this new letter
published today:
Letters to the editor: Hennessy and Patterson on the roots of RISC
Comm. ACM 61(10) 6 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3273019
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3280000/3273019/p6-friedman.pdf
The short two-paragraph letter is from Fred Brooks, noted computer
architect, author, and computer scientist.
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