Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!majeske From: majeske@remus.rutgers.edu (Joseph Majeske) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: MIPS, MFLOPS, Mhz Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 01:08:29 GMT References: <18968@milton.u.washington.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 7 Lets get something straight here. RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer. The 68040 is a CISC - Complete (or Complex) Instruction Set device. It has the esentially same instruction set as the '030. Its blazing speed is derived from extensive pipelining and clever handling of branches, not reducing the rich 680X0 instruction set. One major implication of the '040 is that CISC is far from dead. So, hey, its just not a RISC. :)