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chad_oliver
on Oct 15, 2013
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Jor1k – OpenRISC 1000 Platform Emulator in JS, Lau...
RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) is not a new idea at all, and it
already has
changed everything. CISC has been dying for decades now, because it's hard to optimize very complex architectures.
edvinbesic
on Oct 15, 2013
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It's a quote from the movie Hackers. If you haven't seen it yet, do it! Just don't hope for realism ;)
vernie
on Oct 16, 2013
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I predict that the year of desktop Linux will coincide with the death of CISC.
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