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Re:How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway? by dom0 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @06:29PM (#14234222)
I don't really agree. What is labelled a "CISC instruction set" here would more usually just be called a control interface. But maybe I'm missing some sort of context here. (Contrasting it with "ZISC" for marketing purposes?)
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Re:How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway? by wolfgke on Sunday April 30, 2017 @06:38PM (#14234262)
> Contrasting it with "ZISC" for marketing purposes?

I don't understand what you want to say: ZISC is a rather different concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_instruction_set_computer

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