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The RISK instruction set was made based on the idea that the compiler could do most of the work, so make the hardware instructions simple. But was coming from a
by sroussey 7y ago
The RISK instruction set was made based on the idea that the compiler could do most of the work, so make the hardware instructions simple. But was coming from a time when processor bus speed and memory speed were the same, and microcode was fairly simple. The assumptions didn’t pan out.
- mwfunk 7y agoI forget, what does ARM stand for again? :)
- wolfgke 7y ago> I forget, what does ARM stand for again? :) What do you believe is the reason that ARM does no market this acronym anymore? ;-)
- floatboth 7y ago"Acorn" not being relevant? :D
- myrandomcomment 7y agoHistorically Acorn RISC Machines that ran an OS called RISCOS.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI remember 25 years ago grumbling that RISK processors couldn't be fed instructions fast enough to keep the pipelines full. I also remember a friend that worked at a failed processor company in the 1990's. Said the real reason the company went under was the academic designers thought programs 'do integer math' when modern programs 'do string manipulation'.