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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC vs. CISC? No, OS bug executing data...
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Date: 18 Sep 90 17:00:26 GMT
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>kinda expected. Don't you think? After all, the whole point of RISC is
>to move the complexity from the chip to the S/W. But it is still a nice
>demonstration that the complexity didn't go away, just moved.   

And, perhaps, a useful demonstration as well.  I remember seeing
somebody arguing against RISC because it requires people to put
complexity into software, not realizing that if you move it into
hardware it doesn't go away, it just moves....