Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I think the real problem is that CPUs have gotten complex enough that 
> there's no long a single dimension along which you measure "size." It's 
> like arguing over whether something is "CISC" or "RISC".

  I don't think there's any confusion about that. In a typical RISC
processor each opcode has exactly the same size, and a fixed amount of
bits in the opcode are allocated for specified things. (This really
limits the total number of commands (disregarding its parameters inside
the opcode), making it a truely reduced instruction set.)

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