Me and a friend of mine are in the middle of a debate and were
wondering if you guys could help settle it.
When one of you guys put your SGI Indy up for sale, I told my friend
about it, and we began arguing over the power of a risc processer. He argues
that because of a risc's limited instruction set, a risc is slower than a
comperable x86 because it requires more intructions to accomplish a task. I
argue that risc's have more bang per computational cycle, because the
instructions they use take up fewer clock cycles, and fewer instructions
means the cpu can transmit data more quickly. Plus, the 64-bit bus allows
the cpu to handle data more efficiently. (My friend claims that PIIs and up
use 128-bit buses with 32-bit compatibility mode.)
I admit, my hardware skills aren't nearly where they should be, so
please don't ream me out too badly if I am suffering from severe
rectal-cranial inversion. =)
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The Fishy One's Infinite Wisdom #15: "A man doesn't need a scarecrow if he's
got penguins."
New wisdom every week!
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