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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=  posted:   
      
   > On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:59:33 +0300, Michael S wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:53:16 -0000 (UTC)   
   > > Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> From the beginning, I felt that the much-trumpeted reduction in   
   > >> instruction set complexity never quite matched up with reality. So I   
   > >> thought a better name would be “IRSC”, as in “Increased Register Set   
   > >> Computer” -- because the one feature that really did become common was   
   > >> the larger register sets.   
   > >   
   > > Larger register sets were common, but not universal.   
   >   
   > Where is there an architecture you would class as “RISC”, but did not   
   have   
   > a “large” register set?   
      
   See Univac 1108   
      
   > (How “large” is “large”? The VAX had 16 registers; was there any RISC   
   > architecture with only that few?)   
      
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