Historical Notes on CISC and RISC: Difference between revisions

 

It is somewhat ironic that many Assembly language instructors today have found it easier to teach assembly programming in a RISC architecture such as MIPS or ARM, rather than than in the ubiqioutous but far more complex x86 PC system: historically, it was the CISC designs which are generally associated with extensive assembly language programming, while the RISC design were explicitly intended to make compiling code from a high-level language easier, with the expectation that assembly language would be rarely used except for in the operating system.