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Old 08-08-2007, 07:00 PM   #62
sclitheroe
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead View Post
You have that backwards. x86 platform is CISC. CISC won.
Hah...neither really won. Your IA32 CISC code is being decoded into a lower level RISC-like instruction set on all modern x86 compatible CPU's. CISC and RISC are not really relavent terms anymore when discussing microprocessors, though, so it hardly matters.

-Scott
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