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> The pre-eminent mainframe architecture these days (z/Architecture) is categorized as CISC. Very much so. It's largely a register-memory (and indeed memory-me
by musicale 1y ago
> The pre-eminent mainframe architecture these days (z/Architecture) is categorized as CISC.
Very much so. It's largely a register-memory (and indeed memory-memory) rather than load-store architecture, and a direct descendant of the System/360 from 1964.