Indeed. If you look at Patterson's initial paper that makes the argument for RISC, he compares it to the VAX instruction set that had support for managing doub

Indeed. If you look at Patterson's initial paper that makes the argument for RISC, he compares it to the VAX instruction set that had support for managing doubly-linked lists, polynomial evaluation, string matching and CRC among other things! Did a little explainer video on that: https://youtu.be/o14ecAoGN8w?t=105 https://youtu.be/o14ecAoGN8w?t=105