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The current Processors are built directly off the previous models... The Athlon 64 is still an Athlon at heart. The current Dothan Pentium is a PIII. The Current Pentium 4 is the same core as when it was first released. I don't see when they supposidly swapped out cores? The SSE3 instruction set was just released with the Prescott Pentium 4. If they were now emulating past instruction sets, they wouldn't be releasing new ones. My arguement stands that the P4 and Athlon are still CISC processors. If you have links to articles that say otherwise, please post them. I'd love to read them.
 
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Avid6eek said:
My arguement stands that the P4 and Athlon are still CISC processors. If you have links to articles that say otherwise, please post them. I'd love to read them.

First link from Google: http://www.cpuid.com/PentiumM/index.php

From the article:

"The Pentium !!! micro-architecture is based on a RISC core with 5 units, and a 10-stages pipeline."

Or the second link: http://www.tom.womack.net/x86FAQ/faq_cores.html

"Designed as a competitor for the Pentium, the AMD K5 failed in the market essentially because it was not possible to produce it at very competitive clock rates. It used the P2-like technique of converting X86 operations to RISC-like ones,"

Oops, looks like they've been doing it for years!

Now you could have saved yourselfsome embarrassment by googling yourself, like my granny used to say, "Before opening mouth, engage google". ;)

Amen-Moses
 
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Where's the embarassment? I told you I would love to read them. I have no problem learning new things. Last I knew they were CISC processors....but that is very old information. Personally, whether they are RISC or CISC, doesn't mean a darn thing to me. As long as they work, and offere the features/performance I need.
 

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