Labels:chat room | crt screen | hakham | monitor | plant | sky OCR: ENT PROC ESSING UNIT InfoWeb Instruc tion Se Com plexity What's the difference between CISC and RISC? Ac progr ammers deve loped various instruction sets for computers, they tended to add mrrr pue more complex instructions that took up many bytes 1 memory and required sey eral clock cycles fo r execution RISC computer ba ised on central proce ssing unit with complex instruction set came known complex instruction set computer ot CISC 1975 John Cocke an IBM research scientist, discovered that most of the work done e Aq microproce ssor requires only a small subset of the available instruction set Further research showed that only 20 percent of the instructions of CISC machine do about 80 percent 10 the work Cocke' research result er n the dey elopment of microprocessors with streamlined instr ...
