rarest computers

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Tue Aug 3 16:53:37 CDT 2004


>>>>> "SHAUN" == SHAUN RIPLEY <vax3900 at yahoo.com> writes:

 SHAUN> .... Also CISC won the battle
 SHAUN> with RISC finally.

Is that so?

I would say that RISC won.  Pretty much everything is RISC, except
where backward compatibility forces the continued support of some
horribly crufty CISC instruction set (x86) or some not quite so
horrible CISC instruction set (M68k).

    paul




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