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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...
Worried by the possible character of the Committee's delegation, the NSA has protested; it wants to make up a delegation to present an unbiased picture of the U. S. at Prague. But the CISC has refused to allow this, stating that..."the objective of the leadership of the NSA is to split the students of the west from those of the east...they are conducting themselves in a way that identifies them with the cold-war policies of the U. S. State Department...
...August, they must somehow get at least a talkative minority at Prague. While they cannot be official delegates, students can attend the Conference. If an ample number of students get to the Festival, there may be enough really representative U. S. student opinion to prove to other groups that CISC people have no priority on the truth about the U. S.--that what truth they do have, they distort...