I think that's a misleading way of looking at things. There is no "CISC philosophy". RISC designs came out as a new way of doing things and existing designs w

I think that's a misleading way of looking at things. There is no "CISC philosophy". RISC designs came out as a new way of doing things and existing designs were called CISC for contrast. It's not like there were two schools of thought that were developed at the same time and the CISC designs intentionally rejected RISC philosophies.