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Probably because it ran on PowerPC. If I remember my systems design class from 20 years ago, RISC makes implementing or scaling multiprocessing easier.
by da_chicken 9y ago
Probably because it ran on PowerPC. If I remember my systems design class from 20 years ago, RISC makes implementing or scaling multiprocessing easier.
- nradov 9y agoIntel processors essentially are RISC now internally. They just expose more complex instructions as a higher level API.
- JetSetWilly 9y agoThey are not RISC internally. In fact I read an interview with an intel engineer that an intel cou has >10,000 uops. That’s not in any sense reduced! And it doesn’t make sense to apply the term ”risc” to internal CPU design anyway.
- GabeRicard 9y agoIt ran pretty well on Intel also. And it originally ran on AT&T Hobbit, whatever the hell that was.