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  3. From: dewald@plains.NoDak.edu (Eric Dewald)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  5. Subject: CISC and RISC
  6. Message-ID: <Bz8FD1.Dxt@ns1.nodak.edu>
  7. Date: 14 Dec 92 04:34:13 GMT
  8. References: <70436@cup.portal.com> <amipb.04wr@amipb.gna.org> <37844@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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  10. Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
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  14. Why should computer makers go from CISC to RISC?
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  16. I was under the impression that CISC meant complicated instruction set
  17. and RISC meant reduced instruction set. So wouldn't that mean larger
  18. code size on a RISC machine compared to CISC.
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  20. What are the advantages of CISC and RISC?
  21. Thank you in advance,
  22. Eric Dewald
  23. dewald@plains.NoDak.edu
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