Alan, > I especially appreciated he not only offered an opinion - his specific > ideas on where the boarder between RISC and CISC was - but then provided > an analysis of a bunch of processors based on those criteria and an > analysis of the outliers that challenged his criteria. It's a well > thought-out and explained opinion that just doesn't happen often on the > Internet.
It does happen quite a lot but is drowned out by the far larger volume of nonsense. > I assume from RS/6000, he meant generally the Power gen 1 architecture. > And IBM RT/PC he meant ROMP. I'm pretty sure Alpha was well established > when he wrote the analysis. Would have been nice to see that included. The text explains the situation in 1991 and the Alpha was released in 1992. -- Jecel