[geeks] T H E??b r i Q

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jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>I thought IBM was the first to move to PPC.  PPC is definately better than
>x86, but it just doesn't seem quite as nice as MIPS, Sparc, or other RISC
>chips.

Someone told me that POWER (and probably PPC) started out a clean RISC,
and they bolted an ugly CISC set of instructions onto the side, like CDC
did with the 6600 way back when... can anyone confirm/deny? (I'm thinking
specificly of memory-to-memory instructions.)

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