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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: MINIMUM instruction set
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.134100.13188@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 13:41:00 GMT
- References: <1durqhINN3di@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- Scott Dorsey (kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
- :
- : It's possible to build a machine with a single instruction (subtract and
- : skip if equal), but definitely not practical. I believe a student at U.
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- YOu can't say that. Based on my current thinking this is the future of a new
- class of SUPER INTELLIGENT machines, that cannot crash. After all , there is
- only one instruction(conditional).
- I've a strange feeling this is the way our mind works.
- --
- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
- Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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