in the late 60s the fad was to rewrite bigger instruction sets in
terms of smaller ones (the metric was # of instructions). somebody
had a 16 instruction set that someone else reimplemented in 8
instructions. the apollo guidance computer had 12 instructions and
a few magic memory locations. it was finally determinted you could
get by on
one instruction --- some variation on predecrement and branch
if negative. "look ma, no instructions." unfortunately, this machine
was somewhat difficult to program
- erik
i think you're referencing the One Instruction Set Computer (OISC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OISC
