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Re:The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of t... by joshu on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @06:34PM (#4010482)
Virtual memory is exceedingly slow and difficult without hardware support.

Vector operations (SIMD etc) aren't necessarily RISC vs CISC; it is orthogonal. The very notion of RISC vs CISC is practically an antiquated notion now.

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Re:The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of t... by astrodust on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @08:00PM (#4010754)
Especially since modern Intel processors are mostly RISC-like inside with a CISC decoding layer wrapped around it. The difference is academic as it all boils down to similar CPU-level code and seems more dependent on the internal design of the chip than the instruction set.
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