Word: cisc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Microprocessors can be divided into two groups: CISC chips and RISC chips. The two architectures are fundamentally different approaches to processor performance, which is the measurement of how long it takes for the chip to perform a task using three factors: cycles per instruction, time per cycle and instructions per task...
...Pentium and other processors from Intel and Motorola, on the other hand, follow a design philosophy called complex instruction set computing (CISC), aimed at doing as many kinds of tasks on the chip as possible, thereby making the programmer's life easier but costing time with slower instruction execution...