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Yes, good points. It’s worth remembering that the surviving CISC architectures (x86 and z/370) are less CISCy than VAX and 68k were, in terms of number of addr
by fanf2 3y ago
Yes, good points.
It’s worth remembering that the surviving CISC architectures (x86 and z/370) are less CISCy than VAX and 68k were, in terms of number of address operands and complexity of addressing modes. And ARM is not a classically RISCy RISC. Instruction sets seem to have converged on a pragmatic middle ground — except for RISCV :-)
- snvzz 3y ago>except for RISCV :-) Oh, it also is (very) pragmatic. It's just the sort of pragmatism culture that from the outside gets often misunderstood as "purism" :-)