Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 20:48:27 05/03/03
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On May 03, 2003 at 21:55:44, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: >On May 03, 2003 at 20:55:28, Frank Nelson wrote: > >>Novag on it's website states that the Star Diamond and Obsidian runs on a >>CISC processor but the USCF's catalog last month show the two computers running >>RISC brand-on the computer deck. Can anyone here solve this contradiction? >There is no contradiction.CISC stands for compact instruction which is just >another name for Reduced instruction.Novag for some reason decided to call >its RISC chip CISC. Uhh.. No. CISC stands for Complex Instruction Set Computing, not compact. It is not a synonym for RISC, it is an antonym.
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