On Thursday, Apr 15, 2004, at 19:43 US/Pacific, Shawn Wilton wrote:

> It's characterized, more or less by the simplicity of
> the instructions.  Typical Cisc instructions will have 2 to 3 operands,
> whereas a RISC will have one operand.  Another major component is the
> use of registers and the focus on hardware simplicity.
>
> http://cse.stanford.edu/class/sophomore-college/projects-00/risc/
> whatis/index.html

Ok.  I don't think "registers", as mentioned in that definition, and
"registers" as exist on things like PICs match up very well.  RISC
usually involves memory/register move capability, with all the math and
such happening between registers...  PIC registers don't DO that...

CISC, now; you haven't lived until you programmed a CPU that has
machine level instructions directly supporting COBOL that execute
somewhat more slowly than similar functions written (on the same CPU)
in the more primitive primitives...

BillW

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