[Info-vax] OT: SONY's PS4 announcment

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/23/2013 9:23 PM, David Froble wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
>
>> I never thought I'd see this industry shift from RISC to CISC.
>>
>> NSR
>
> Well, the last N-VAX was sort of RISC inside.
>
> I may be wrong, but it's my impression that the x86 stuff is sort of
> RISC inside too.

I am sure that they have been inspired a lot by various RISC designs.

But I don't think the "RISC inside" concept makes much sense.

The RISC/CISC terms are about the ISA exposed.

Arne