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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple Doesn't support their Existing User Base
Message-ID: <16296@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 29 May 91 08:09:23 GMT
References: <1991May28.113624.329@crash.cts.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991May28.113624.329@crash.cts.com> charlie@pro-mansion.cts.com (Charles Vangsgard) writes:
>What is so special about RISC? What can it do that current computers cannot
>do? Is it faster with more memory capability? I assume the big hitch is
>providing software powerful enough to take advantage of the RISC machines.

No, Reduced Instruction Set Computer architecture is merely a means of
improving computational throughput for the same level of circuit technology,
by relying on simpler machine instructions that can be executed with fewer
clock cycles each than in the traditional, (relatively) Complex Instruction
Set Computers.  One significant characteristic of RISC is that it relies
heavily on compiler technology to exploit the simpler instruction set.

There is no relation between the RISC concept and any specific detail
such as amount of addressable memory.

Your last sentence leads me to suggest that you read Ted Nelson's "Computer
Lib" or some other accessible explanation of what computing is all about.