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RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer.
 
RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer.
  

Revision as of 17:18, 15 August 2006

RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer.

The basis of a RISC processor is that it has a relatively small set of possible instructions, but it executes those instructions very fast.

A RISC processor can be compared to a CISC processor.


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