One of the deeper dives into RISC vs CISC I've seen

[Jecel Assumpcao Jr.]

Alan,

> I especially appreciated he not only offered an opinion - his specific 
> ideas on where the boarder between RISC and CISC was - but then provided 
> an analysis of a bunch of processors based on those criteria and an 
> analysis of the outliers that challenged his criteria.  It's a well 
> thought-out and explained opinion that just doesn't happen often on the 
> Internet.

It does happen quite a lot but is drowned out by the far larger volume
of nonsense.

> I assume from RS/6000, he meant generally the Power gen 1 architecture.  
> And IBM RT/PC he meant ROMP.  I'm pretty sure Alpha was well established 
> when he wrote the analysis.  Would have been nice to see that included.  

The text explains the situation in 1991 and the Alpha was released in
1992.

-- Jecel