Comment by Cookingboy
12 years ago
I wouldn't call X86 RISC. Granted, RISC doesn't have a clear definition anymore these days and is more or less a marketing buzzword.
12 years ago
I wouldn't call X86 RISC. Granted, RISC doesn't have a clear definition anymore these days and is more or less a marketing buzzword.
I think kristianp's point is that current x86 implementations are simply an x86 instruction decoder/emulator running on a very-RISC microcoded machine.
Which is how a lot of mainframes were implemented in the 60s/70s (e.g. KL-10).