vintage CPU instruction sets

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> writes:

 Rich> From: Andy Holt Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 2:15 AM

 >> ...The RISC before there ws RISC:

 >> *CDC6600

 Rich> The PDP-10 is often described this way.

Interesting.  I wouldn't, for a couple of reasons.  The PDP-10
instruction set is quite large.  Also, RISC generally means load/store
instructions and the rest of the ops are register based.  CDC 6000
series does that, as do contemporary RISC architectures like MIPS --
but the PDP-10 doesn't.

    paul