DocumentCode
1114493
Title
Making RISC respectable-the Motorola 88000
Author
Dettmer, Roger
Volume
34
Issue
6
fYear
1988
fDate
6/23/1988 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
237
Lastpage
240
Abstract
The author discusses the history of microprocessor instruction sets, in particular, complex instruction set computing (CISC). He then goes on to discuss the development of reduced instruction set computing (RISC). He describes in more detail the Motorola 88000 family of RISC based chips, including register use, multiprocessor support, compilers, and performance
Keywords
microprocessor chips; reduced instruction set computing; CISC; Motorola 88000; RISC; compilers; complex instruction set computing; multiprocessor support; register;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
IEE Review
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0953-5683
Type
jour
Filename
295692
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