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CISC

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See also: ISA | RISC

Acronym: Complex Instruction Set Computer

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Obsolete term?

The best known and most popular CISC architecture is x86, although newer implementations are not really CISC on the inside anymore. Rather, these processors emulate the x86 and are more RISC-ish.

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