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It used to be an architectural distinction but now it's just marketing, if even that much. When PowerPC started adding complex vector instructions (AltiVec) an
by astrodust 7y ago
It used to be an architectural distinction but now it's just marketing, if even that much.
When PowerPC started adding complex vector instructions (AltiVec) and the Pentium turned x86 into a RISC core with translation layer around it you knew the distinction was pretty much dead.