Daniel Mandic wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:"The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."You mean my Pentium is a wacky, unoptimized piece of multilevel cached CISC (RISC). Downgraded to Milestones like 'ELITE II' or 'Tempest2000' to see a bit of digital-art. (Not audible on actual systems) You could easy say the RISC is better, but the time is wrong... or not? Otherwise (meanwhile) the CISC-Base got their profits, but only to go the way back!? hmmm. I am confused.
Yes, the RISC principles provided both an implementation advantage (simple, non-state-machine datapath) and an overall advantage in system-level cost-performance (removal of computation from execution time to compile time). CISC manufacturers, who owned the market, adopted the RISC-style datapaths to capture the implementation advantage, and abandoned the second advantage. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."