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The nature of RISC is not only that it uses simple instructions but that it ''keeps the chip simple''. CISC makes no effort to simplify the chip-- going for speed and capability and only using simplicity when it’s faster.
== RICH ==
In the development of architectures, the term RICH meant Rich Instruction CHip, implying individual machine instructions were potentially extremely powerful, sometimes competing with compiler instructions. In the 1980s, CISC supplanted RICH in the trade press, although I consider RICH a more descriptive (and mroe clever) acronym than CISC.
--[[User:UnicornTapestry|UnicornTapestry]] ([[User talk:UnicornTapestry|talk]]) 23:53, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
:This deserves mention within the CISC article, although I don't believe RICH deserves a separate article.
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