Re: Opcode Instruction Question

[John Oyler <john.oyler@attbi.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:
> Wow.  This is tantamount to flame bait!  ;-)
> 
> The 68K family is more like a VAX than anything else, and is _definitely_
> in the CISC camp.  The debates are endless, but a pretty good test is
> whether there are operations that work on a register with a memory
> operand (as opposed to just another register operand).
> 
> RISC machines are sometimes called LOAD/STORE machines, because
> the only instructions that reference memory are LOAD and STORE
> instructions.  All data manipulation instructions are register-to-register,
> typically producing a result in a third register.
> 
> Read some of the _extensive_ literature on this topic--some is quite
> enlightening, and some is merely confusing.
> 
> BTW, there is a good case for Seymore Cray inventing the first RISC
> architecture--the CDC 6600.

This has to be a first. The venerable CISC/RISC flamewar spilling over
into csa2. LOL.

+250 bonus points to Mike here, for mentioning vaxen, 68k, _and_ the cdc
6600 all in a single post.
+5000 bonus points for posting it in csa2.

John