At 12:14 PM -0800 1/8/06, Danial Thom wrote:
--- Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> user Opteron/Athlon64 - better than both :)
> AMD made RISC-like architecture that just runs i386-like
> code (i386+more registers and few extra instructions,
> while lots of mostly-unused instructions emulated).
Thats hilarious, a "reduced instruction set"
processor that has extra instructions! Good one!
You should think of "RISC" as a "set of reduced instructions",
and not a "reduced set of instructions". Even IBM's original
RISC had a fairly large *number* of instructions, but fancier
do-all instructions were removed in favor of instructions which
did less, and thus could always complete in fewer CPU cycles.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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