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Dictionary of Computers - RISC
RISC
Microprocessor (processor on a single chip) that carries out fewer instructions than other (CISC) microprocessors in common use in the 1990s. Because of the low number and the regularity of machine code instructions, the processor carries out those instructions very quickly.
RISC microprocessors became commercially available in the mid 1980s and were used mainly in Unix workstations and servers. They are now widely used in games consoles, set-top receiver boxes, and laser printers, as well as in microcomputers made by Apple Computer.
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