Author: Milton Zucker
Date: 06:19:48 05/04/03
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On May 03, 2003 at 23:48:27, Jay Urbanski wrote: >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. This is the web page which supports Mr. Mirafzali's assertion that Novag intended CICS to stand for "Compact Instruction Set Chip": http://www.novag.com/Web%202003/ENGLISH%202003/TABLE-E%202003.htm Milton
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