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08/02/07 10:02
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#142637 - possible, rather than necessary
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Christoph Franck said:
In a non-Load/Store architecture, on the other hand, data processing instructions may work directly with the contents of the memory, which makes a wide variety of adressing modes necessary.


Possible, not necessary. There is nothing which prevents you to strip the CISC instructions down to the same load/store instruction set - just that it makes no sense...

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There are more paradigms commonly used in RISC than just load/store. The ultimate goal is overall simplicity, which supposedly allows higher clocks, and this would (over)compensate the decreased "work-per-instruction".

The recent development mostly disproved this approach; and RISCs are today generally no significantly better than CISCs, except a few niche applications.

JW


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TopicAuthorDate
Instruction Set in RISC Microcontroller            01/01/70 00:00      
   the name is misleading...            01/01/70 00:00      
      RISC actually means ...            01/01/70 00:00      
         possible, rather than necessary            01/01/70 00:00      
   Reduced complexity            01/01/70 00:00      
   if you want to see a real RISC ...            01/01/70 00:00      
      RISCness            01/01/70 00:00      
      I wouldn't call this Signetics thing a RISC...            01/01/70 00:00      
         The original RISC            01/01/70 00:00      
            Only 8 Codes!            01/01/70 00:00      
            If I were you, I'd consult one of the PDP8 sites            01/01/70 00:00      
         I think it meets the spec ...            01/01/70 00:00      
         about that website bug ...            01/01/70 00:00      

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