Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <9ridnYBXf8aag26jXTWc-w@speakeasy.net>,
Matthew Russotto <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:
> In article <bcuhos$1et6$1@merope.saaf.se>,
> Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:
> 
>> Microcode can of course be replaced by hardware, however the RISC CPU
>> still does an amount of interpretation of the machine code before
>> deciding what to actually do.  If the RISC machine code was some kind
>> of microcode moved out to regular memory, then it would become very
>> bloated, where most bits in the machine code didn't matter but still
>> had to be there to occupy that specific bit position.
> 
> Welcome to Itanium EPIC/ELIW (explicitly parallel instruction
> word/extremely lon instruction word)
 
.... however, Itanium is a CISC CPU ....  :-)
 
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