Sunday, July 12, 2009

RISC

IBM, Stanford, and UC-Berkeley announce the first Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) projects in the early 1980s. RISC processors provide advantages to applications that benefit from faster instruction execution, such as engineering and graphics workstations, and parallel-processing systems. The first commercially available RISC processors hit the market around 1990.
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