Timeline for Why were early electronic computers mutually incompatible?
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| Feb 26, 2021 at 13:32 | comment | added | mikb | I remember hearing that at the time, but I am going to disagree with you. A microengine (possibly running nanocode) running microcode to implement a CISC instruction set is about as far from RISC as you can get. Intel don't expose the RISC layer. So IMHO, marketing it is, RISC it is not. | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 4:32 | comment | added | Mark | A slight correction on your history: RISC didn't "fall by the wayside", it won. x86 chips have been internally RISC for over two decades, using a translation layer to support the traditional instruction set. | |
| Apr 19, 2020 at 18:13 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Apr 19, 2020 at 2:56 | history | answered | mikb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |