Ten years ago, I waded into the then-raging “Mac vs. PC” wars with a lengthy treatise on “RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era.” In the conclusion to that article, I declared the “RISC vs. CISC” debate ...

Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...

Couple of questionable generalities H@.<BR><BR>RISC ISAs generally have 32 bit instructions. Popular CISC ISAs like x86 and VAX generally have average instruction length less than 32 bits for most ...