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Typical CISC is an instructions which uses both a load/store pipeline slot and an ALU pipeline slot. 'move immediate to address' just uses a load/store slot and
by ajb 10y ago
Typical CISC is an instructions which uses both a load/store pipeline slot and an ALU pipeline slot. 'move immediate to address' just uses a load/store slot and fits into a normal risc microarchitecture; the reason you don't normally get it is encoding constraints: the address typically uses the instruction bits where the immediate would go.
Looking at the source, though, this processor uses a variable length instruction; so it is at least a bit CISCy.