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The RISC-II thesis from 1983 references the 801, but it looks like IBM only started talking about it at around this time. The RISC-V project didn't start until

• klelatti 4y ago
  There is a funny quote from David Patterson in his Oral History > There was the 801 project was secretive. There is something called the 801, “What is it?” It was very hard to know even what they were doing. It was supposed to be very exciting, very breakthrough, but unless John Cocke came and told you what they were doing, you couldn't figure out anything about it. So, there was that kind of the mystery of the 801. I think word did get out in the late 1970s but not officially!
  • rjsw 4y ago
    One of the references in the Katevenis thesis is "J. Cocke: Informal discussion on the IBM 801 mini-computer, U.C.Berkeley Campus, June 1983".
    • klelatti 4y ago
      From memory I think Cocke lectured at Berkeley (and maybe at Stanford too?)
• abudabi123 4y ago
  SC stood for Seymour Cray in RISC went one joke in his memory you can find on YT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray