"Dave Sherman" <dcsherman at qwest.net> writes:

> According to the folks at Ars Technica (www.arstechnica.com), this debate 
> is dead, because there is no such thing as a pure RISC or pure CISC chip 
> any longer -- both technologies have converged, taken the best of each 
> design philosophy, to the point where the differences are so slight that 
> they are far outweighted by the similarities.

That's been true for a while too.  RISC was a paradigm shift based on
changes in the relative speed of processor, RAM, and ROM.  It started
to make more sense in the early 80's.  And over the years things have
continued to change, and people have refined and improved
architectures to do what they think is important at the time.

I still find them somewhat useful categories, not to say a chip is one
or the other, but to say that ideas or aspects of a design are one or
the other.
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