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	Reduced instruction set computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		UC Berkeley's RISC project started in 1980 under the direction of David Patterson, based on gaining performance through the use of pipelining and an aggressive use of registers known as register windows.
		Berkeley's research was not directly commercialized, but the RISC-II design was used by Sun Microsystems to develop the SPARC, by Pyramid Technology to develop their line of mid-range multi-processor machines, and by almost every other company a few years later.
		It was Sun's use of a RISC chip in their new machines that demonstrated that RISC's benefits were real, and their machines quickly outpaced the competition and essentially took over the entire workstation market.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RISC (4208 words)

	RISC - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		RISC, short for Reduced (or Regular) Instruction Set Computer (or Computing), is a computer CPU design philosophy that favors a smaller and simpler set of instructions that all take about the same amount of time to execute.
		RISC design philosophy In the late 1970s research at IBM (and similar projects elsewhere) demonstrated that the majority of these "orthogonal" addressing modes were ignored by most programs.
		Modern RISC Berkeley's research was not directly commercialized, but the RISC-II design was used by Sun Microsystems to develop the SPARC, by Pyramid to develop their line of mid-range multi-processor machines, and by almost every other company a few years later.
	www.questionz.net /Apple_Macintosh/RISC.html (2953 words)

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