There is a limit to how much can be done in miniaturizing transistors to increase the speed and capacity of a microprocessor chip. The original 80x86 CPU chips were replaced by the reduced instruction architecture, allowing more to be done in less space. This paper discusses the two formats, with the first 8086 Intel chip and the MIPS R2000 as examples. Concludes that RISC chips are the wave of the future. Illustrated.This paper has nine pages and three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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