> CISC has won (heck, even ARM is not RISC anymore). Deal with it :) If by RISC you literally mean a reduced number of instructions, I guess that's a valid poi

> CISC has won (heck, even ARM is not RISC anymore). Deal with it :) If by RISC you literally mean a reduced number of instructions, I guess that's a valid point. But RISC is mostly used to describe instruction sets in which each instruction performs a limited amount of work, especially memory accesses. That's why RISC architectures are generally load/store, while CISC architectures allow access to multiple discontinuous memory areas in a single instruction. By the way, modern x86 chips are RISC machines that translate the x86 instruction set to native microcode.