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Post #49 by TylerEss
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateSat, 21 Jun 2008 - 07:54
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/quadra-650-nubus.13593/
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TRISC was a dead end. Even in 2008 the CPU champion is a CISC (the pentium offspring x86).
I dunno about the internal workings of the AMD chips, but the modern Intel chips have a very RISC-like microcode that all the x86 instructions are broken down into. The silicon doesn't actually have paths for the x86 instructions, which makes the RISC vs CISC debate extremely poorly defined.

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