RISC maker.

RISC maker.

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This article briefly describes the career of John Hennessy, who, as a computer architect, pioneered reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC). He helped evangelize RISC, in the early 1980s when most people didn't believe computers with such an architecture would ever be much use, and he started...

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Published in:IEEE spectrum 39, 11(duplicate) (2002).
Main Author: Perry, T.S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
John Hennessy.
RISC.
Stanford University president.
Cache memory.
Multiprocessors.
Reduced-instruction-set computing.