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::::That's a sequence from 1992, from an era before the "throw a bunch of simple operations into a bucket and run them superscalar and out-of-order - which may involve chopping complex instructions into muliple simple operations" stuff, so it'd be interesting to see what he'd say now.
::::And the two CISC ISAs he seemed to put in the "relatively simple, as CISCs go" bucket 1) are the two remaining CISCs from that paper, 2) have a ton of money behind them (PC x86 processors and IBM mainframes), and 3) appear now to have implementations in the "throw a bunch of simple operations into a bucket and..." camp. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 22:53, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
== Combine CISC page with RISC? ==
I've been thinking that it would make sense to merge the CISC page into the RISC page. The problem is that the RISC and CISC page have a lot of overlap and mostly cover the same history and information, so they are largely redundant (when they aren't contradictory). As [[WP:OVERLAP]] says, "Remember, that Wikipedia is not a dictionary; there does not need to be a separate entry for every concept. For example, "flammable" and "non-flammable" can both be explained in an article on flammability."
I'm not saying that CISC is unimportant, of course. But since CISC is essentially defined in opposition to RISC, you can't really discuss one without the other. I think that combining the pages would improve both of them. Comments? [[User:KenShirriff|KenShirriff]] ([[User talk:KenShirriff|talk]]) 20:15, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
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