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#114 What is an Instruction Set Architecture?

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The Difference Between Risk and Sisk in Instruction Set Architecture Design

Sisk is a microprocessor architecture that includes complex instructions. Risk says, you know what, let's just have really simple instructions in the architecture. That way we can implement them as efficiently as possible. ARM came out in the late 1980s, whereas x86 is from the late 1970s.

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