Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ?

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From: BRUCE SZABLAK
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1987 12:48

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One major point about RISC that I haven't seen mentioned, is that a simpler
instruction set implies that a LOT less silicon is devoted to micro-code.
This silicon can be used for other things such as a large number of
registers or, in the Transputers case, support of high speed serial
communication lines. One reason RISC's execute faster is that access to
on chip memory (e.g. registers) is faster than accessing off chip registers.
Also, in some RISCs the instruction set is implemented using
logic as opposed to micro-code which is usually faster too.

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