Hi Thanks for making this point. Intel uses a RISC machine inside as does most any other serious processor company. They can do this because once past the bus bottleneck, one can use more bus width inside for speed while using a CISC coding outside for compaction. I predict that eventually, people will realize that they should be building a uP in every RAM chip. At that point, we may see a revival of the RISC engine visible to the programmer. Lets face it, right now, it is mostly a RAM chip with a processor, it is just that they call it a processor with RAM ( cache ) and not the other way around. Although, it is most likely good for my company in the short term, it is most likely bad for computer development in the long run :( Dwight