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In article <25734@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>The cheetah is a RISC architecture.  It contains nothing that isn't
>needed to run fast or to kill.
>Nature contains very few CISC architectures.

By that definition, then, H. Sap. is a CISC.  Far more frontal lobes than we
would need merely to survive, organs we no longer need (appendix, for
example, and note that this causes lots of problems), teeth which, although
they seemed a good idea when designed, were implemented poorly and are thus
causing problems for future generations of the architecture (wisdom teeth,
anybody?).

Nature contains *lots* of "CISC architectures," in that there are lots of
things ("features") most organisms could live quite well without.  (Why do
male mammals have nipples?)

The most successful organisms on this planet are the "simple" ones:
insects.

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