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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!shogun
- From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CISC and RISC
- References: <Bz8FD1.Dxt@ns1.nodak.edu>
- Message-ID: <shogun.09jw@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 09:19:14 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 20
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- In article <Bz8FD1.Dxt@ns1.nodak.edu>, dewald@plains.NoDak.edu (Eric Dewald)
- writes:
- >Why should computer makers go from CISC to RISC?
- >
- >I was under the impression that CISC meant complicated instruction set
- >and RISC meant reduced instruction set. So wouldn't that mean larger
- >code size on a RISC machine compared to CISC.
- >
- >What are the advantages of CISC and RISC?
- >Thank you in advance,
- >Eric Dewald
- >dewald@plains.NoDak.edu
- A RISC machine runs each instruction faster than a CISC machine does,
- but a CISC machine get's more done with each instruction.
- Jay Brown
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