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From: krish@jetsun.WEITEK.COM (Krishnan Sridhar)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC/CISC and the wheel of life.
Summary: Today's CISC is tomorrow's RISC
Message-ID: <740@jetsun.WEITEK.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 88 01:00:20 GMT
References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5498@juniper.uucp> <1945@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <1945@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> I have noticed one very interesting thing about RISCs lately... they are
> getting quite sophisticated instruction sets. 3-address operations and
> addressing modes aren't what I used to associate with RIS, but if you look
> at them they turn out to be refinements of older RISCs.
> 


Yes. In fact, I would even go as far as saying that today's CISC is tomorrow's
RISC (as somebody said ... everything is relative...)!

- Krish