On 6/12/19 1:47 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote: > > I especially appreciated he not only offered an opinion - his specific > ideas on where the boarder between RISC and CISC was - but then provided > an analysis of a bunch of processors based on those criteria and an > analysis of the outliers that challenged his criteria. It's a well > thought-out and explained opinion that just doesn't happen often on the > Internet. > > I assume from RS/6000, he meant generally the Power gen 1 architecture. > And IBM RT/PC he meant ROMP. I'm pretty sure Alpha was well established > when he wrote the analysis. Would have been nice to see that included. > If I had more time, I'd research it. Maybe SuperH and WE32 as well. >
Is the discussion restricted to microprocessors? --Chuck