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Rewarded for RISC

Published: 23 May 2018 Publication History

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ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients David Patterson and John Hennessy developed the "dangerous" idea that software should be simpler so it can be executed more quickly, which evolved into the Reduced Instruction Set Computer architecture.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 6
June 2018
97 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3229066
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Published: 23 May 2018
Published in CACM Volume 61, Issue 6

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