At 14.08 2005.06.22 -0700, you wrote:
>Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>
>>"superior PIC architecture"
>>
>>What's he been smoking? I always thought we Dutch had the best stuff!
>> 
>Nah, BC Bud is the way to go!  But superior architecture! Not!

It makes me laugh when they call the PIC a "single-cycle RISC".
It has just two pipelines packed with tons of logic each, it's not what I would define a good example of "single-cycle RISC" (let away that it's not single cycle, unless my BASIC interpreter is single cycle as well if I pretend to divide Fosc/4000000 and call it an "instruction cycle").
The PIC may NOT be microcoded, but that alone doesn't make it a decent example of "RISC" IMHO.

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