>>I heard >> someone make the comment that even the z10 (and possibly earlier) were >> RISC with CISC in the milli-micro-etc. code? >> >668 of the 894 instructions on the z10 EC (about 75%) are implemented >entirely in hardware. I don't know about anyone else, but I would not >exactly call 668 hardware instructions "RISC."
I might well display my ignorance here but why the heck should I care? What I'd care for is functionality, performance, reliability, and price. I don't care whether this is reached with RISC, CISC, microcode, millicode or any level of combination thereof. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
