[Gllug] CISC v RISC

[t.clarke]

Whilst my more intimate knowldege of processor innards is limited to a good
old  Texas Instruments 990  (registers in memory, if you discount the register
cache on the 990/12), I have always regarded the Motorola 6800 a a 'CISC'
processor (sensibly big-endian I believe), the likes of SPARCS and Alpha's
as 'RISC' and Intel x86's as a third category - 'FCISC'   - no prizes for
guessing what the F stands for !!

Tim

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