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- From: sidor+@pitt.edu (George Sidor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: CISC vs. RISC
- Message-ID: <781@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:38:50 GMT
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- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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- Originator: sidor@unixd3.cis.pitt.edu
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- Just a note on CISC.
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- CISC stands for Complete Instruction Set Computer, not Complex Instruction
- Set Computer. CISC just has more instructions and more adressing modes,
- which make it easier for the programmer and/or compiler to accomplish
- certain tasks. RISC is harder to program, you need a more complex compiler
- generally but you get a fairly big increase in speed.
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- George Sidor
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