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No it was never a [real] RISC. Even the very first version included predication and shift in most instructions. They weren't even fast. The event that change
by FullyFunctional 9y ago
No it was never a [real] RISC. Even the very first version included predication and shift in most instructions. They weren't even fast. The event that changed everything was when DEC Alpha engineers (for reasons I don't know) decided to use their expertise to created StrongARM. This ironically ended up at Intel and was renamed XScale, before being spun out. (EDIT: grammar & typos)