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Complex Instruction Set Computer: Encyclopedia - Complex Instruction Set Computer
A Complex Instruction Set Core (CISC) is a microprocessor instruction set architecture (ISA) in which each instruction can execute severa...
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Risc: Encyclopedia Ii - Risc - Meanwhile...
While the RISC philosophy was coming into its own, new ideas about how to dramatically increase performance of the CPUs were starting to ...
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Risc: Encyclopedia Ii - Risc - Later Risc
Berkeley's research was not directly commercialized, but the RISC-II design was used by Sun Microsystems to develop the SPARC, by Pyramid...
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Risc: Encyclopedia Ii - Risc - Early Risc
The first system that would today be known as RISC was not at the time; it was the CDC 6600 supercomputer, designed in 1964 by Jim Thornt...
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Risc: Encyclopedia Ii - Risc - Pre-risc Design Philosophy
In the early days of the computer industry, compiler technology did not exist. Programming was done in either machine code or assembly la...
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Risc: Encyclopedia Ii - Risc - Risc Design Philosophy
In the late 1970s research at IBM (and similar projects elsewhere) demonstrated that the majority of these "orthogonal" addressing modes ...
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