Future directions in CLIPPER processors

After a brief survey of CLIPPER RISC (reduced instruction set computer) processor generations to date, the authors look ahead to what can be expected from CLIPPER in the 1991-5 time frame. They examine in some depth what they regard as the key trends over the next decade, both in microprocessor architectures and implementation technologies, and they indicate how they expect the CLIPPER to relate to these emerging directions for microprocessors. Their conclusions is that the last six years have demonstrated the validity of the balanced path pursued to date with the CLIPPER, and they do not expect the next decade to call for a radical break with the past.<>