@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoDebian Linux is Joining The RISC-V Bandwagonwww.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1368arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 years ago #1: CISC has gone largely (entirely?) extinct Citation needed? Isn’t x86 considered a CISC?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-22 years 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.
minus-squareBiblbroxlinkfedilink1•2 years agoIn reality it seems to be more complicated: https://fanael.github.io/is-x86-risc-internally.html
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.
In reality it seems to be more complicated: https://fanael.github.io/is-x86-risc-internally.html