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Unread 30-07-2002, 18:04
Dave Hurt Dave Hurt is offline
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I know exactly what I'm talking about. The new Intel and AMD processors are a hybrid of risc and cisc. They take a larger instruction set and break it down into smaller sets of instructions. Not as far as a risc chip, but they do. That's why pc processors have become so fast lately.

And by pc processors, I mean IBM compatabile. Macs are with Motorola processors, PC's are made with Intel and AMD processors.