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Article: Will PC industry break with its 80x86 heritage? RISC's proponents say future belongs to them. (reduced-instruction-set computers) (Trends & Technology)
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- Computer Shopper
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- August 1, 1991
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For the past 10 years, Intel's 80x86 microprocessor family has dominated the desktop computer market. For equally as long, another approach to computer design, called Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), has been working its way up from research labs to commercial products. High-end microprocessor chips based on the RISC approach are generally faster and cheaper than those based on the older Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) approach, which is used by Intel's 80x86 chips and Motorola's 68000 family.
The largest effort yet to push RISC processors into business desktop computers was unveiled this spring with the announcement of the Advanced Computing ...