In sci.space.history Eric Chomko wrote:
RISC processors are called that for a reason. ?they are ****, and
are very risky. ?yet another 'tribute' to the evil, vacuous IBM

IBM invented RISC? I thought it was DEC?

I am reasonably confident that DEC did not invent RISC. I'm not sure
if IBM invented the concept of RISC, but they did have an early RISC
processor - the 801 IIRC. It was in the IBM "PC-RT" which those enough
"fortunate" to be at CMU ca 1984-1988 could use as an "Andrew"
workstation. They were generally third in preference among users
(well at least me, based on performance) behind Sun 3/80's and DEC
MicroVax II's.

When HP started marketing PA-RISC ca 1986 they were calling it HP-PA -
Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture - I'm told because people
indeed considered "RISC" risky. After RISC was established, it was
then called PA-RISC for Precision Architecture RISC.

rick jones
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