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To: muzosi who wrote (230853)	4/20/2007 9:57:25 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Muzosi, > hello??? It's true. RISC processors translate instructions into microcode. They just have much less complicated translators than CISC processors. But the need for translation is unavoidable, especially if you care about backwards compatibility. > i think the right conclusion is that x86 is the winner. if ibm had selected 68008 for pc, 68k would've won. also if one considers how x86 is implemented today it turns out risc is winning because both implementations of x86 are decoding x86 instruction streams into a risc like micro-op instruction stream and executing them directly. When I say CISC vs. RISC, I'm not talking about specific architectures. I'm talking general concepts. When PowerPC got AltiVec instructions, that was confirmation to me that the CISC concept was winning, and that RISC wasn't really RISC anymore. Tenchusatsu

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