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It might be a consequence of Acorn's aggressively simple design for the CPU. They preferred complex software over complex hardware.
by TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
It might be a consequence of Acorn's aggressively simple design for the CPU. They preferred complex software over complex hardware.
- _ph_ 6y agoI don't think RISC makes software more complex, rather the contrary. You need to use more instructions to do the same task, but they are simpler, more regular. Especially when writing compilers, RISC is actually a nice target.