floofloof@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoDebian Linux is Joining The RISC-V Bandwagonwww.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1368arrow-down16cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareRekhyt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year ago #1: CISC has gone largely (entirely?) extinct Citation needed? Isn’t x86 considered a CISC?
minus-squareCevedale@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoYes and no. AFAIK when coding assembler for these chips you use CISC-instructions but they get translated into RISC-instructions by a hardcoded mikroprocessing-unit (not sure about the real term). So the processor itself gets RISC-instructions.
Citation needed? Isn’t x86 considered a CISC?
Yes and no. AFAIK when coding assembler for these chips you use CISC-instructions but they get translated into RISC-instructions by a hardcoded mikroprocessing-unit (not sure about the real term). So the processor itself gets RISC-instructions.