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

[Stefan Skoglund]

ons 2019-06-12 klockan 14:35 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk:
> On 6/12/19 1:47 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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. 
> > If I had more time, I'd research it.  Maybe SuperH and WE32 as
> > well.
> > 
> 
> Is the discussion restricted to microprocessors?
> 
> --Chuck
> 

With VAX 11/780 and S/360 involved ? I don't think so soo
the Cyber series and 709(4) could be interesting.