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Keynote address - the processor instruction set

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This keynote address contains a brief account of the arguements being advanced in favor of reduced instruction sets. These arguements have relevance both to single chip computers and to larger computers. Some comments are made on instruction set design from a compiler writer's point of view, and on the advantages to be gained from regarding the design of an instruction set and the code generator of the compiler as a single task.

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                cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
                ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 13, Issue 4
                Dec. 1982
                169 pages
                ISSN:1050-916X
                DOI:10.1145/1014194
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                New York, NY, United States

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