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And combining the two ways, you get a CISC encoding turned into a RISC-like internal microcode. This is what x86 does, for example.
by Rusky 12y ago
And combining the two ways, you get a CISC encoding turned into a RISC-like internal microcode. This is what x86 does, for example.
- notacoward 12y agoI was wondering who would point that out first. Amusingly, Intel was not the last vendor to stop running x86 instructions natively. IIRC, Cyrix was doing so well after Intel themselves had switched to the front-end-decoder ("ROP") approach.