Bob La Quey wrote:

The core problem for CISC and RISC emulating CISC is

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INT     Call interrupt procedure

     operands  bytes   8088    186     286     386     486     Pentium
       3             1            72      45      23+m    33      26
   13   NP
imm8 2 71 47 23+m 37 30 16 NP
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http://www.emboss.co.nz/pentopt/opcode_i.html

The interrupt response takes many clock cycles.

Andy can perhaps shed some light on the modern state
of affairs.

Your little chart is completely garbled for me. It seems to be suffering from design with proportional fonts instead of fixed width fonts. Is there someplace where this is laid out so it will make sense?

Gus

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