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CISC
Last modified: Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Pronounced
sisk,
and stands for
c
omplex
i
nstruction
s
et
c
omputer
. Most
personal computers
, use a CISC
architecture
, in which the
CPU
supports
as many as two hundred
instructions
. An alternative architecture, used by many
workstations
and also some personal computers, is
RISC (reduced instruction set computer)
, which supports fewer instructions.
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CPU
instruction set
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