From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Dan Cross  schrieb:   
   > In article <107b1bu$252qo$1@dont-email.me>,   
      
   >>Programming a RISC in assembler is not so hard, at least in my   
   >>experience.  Plus, people overestimated use of assembler even in   
   >>the mid-1975s, and underestimated the use of compilers.   
   >>[...]   
   >   
   > They certainly did!  I'm not saying that they're right; I'm   
   > saying that business needs must have, at least in part,   
   > influenced the ISA design.  That is, while mistaken, it was part   
   > of the business decision process regardless.   
      
   It's not clear to me what the distinction of technical vs. business   
   is supposed to be in the context of ISA design.  Could you explain?   
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