> but in a historical context about CPU architecture X86 is the poster child for CISC Rather the DEC VAX and perhaps MC68k are poster childs of CISC. For a dis

> but in a historical context about CPU architecture X86 is the poster child for CISC Rather the DEC VAX and perhaps MC68k are poster childs of CISC. For a discussion of RISC vs. CISC see > http://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html http://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html or its extended version > http://yarchive.net/comp/risc_definition.html http://yarchive.net/comp/risc_definition.html and look at the tables there. You will see that among the processors on the "CISC side", the Intel i486 is nearer to RISC than many other CISC architectures.