Reading all this, it hurts to realize how much of computing history has been lost to NDAs. It's really Infuriating, your writing goes some way in preserving it though. Well done.
Risk was invented in the '70s and during the 70s 80s and 90s computer speed was doubling every 18 months according to Moore's law. A RISC CPU design to layout and production took one to two years whereas a CISC CPU design took four to five years. This means a RISC CPU was 3 years closer to the state-of-the-art and therefore four times faster than CISC on average
What an absolute pity this didn't become the standard at this point in time.
Ps: I'm guessing something else was to be added here?
The simplicity of the instruction set meant that a simple pipelined operation could be implemented. #Add
The first RISC processor to market though seems to have been from Linkabit and Erwin Jacobs.
https://youtu.be/exxTpo7rzxA?t=148
Reading all this, it hurts to realize how much of computing history has been lost to NDAs. It's really Infuriating, your writing goes some way in preserving it though. Well done.
Risk was invented in the '70s and during the 70s 80s and 90s computer speed was doubling every 18 months according to Moore's law. A RISC CPU design to layout and production took one to two years whereas a CISC CPU design took four to five years. This means a RISC CPU was 3 years closer to the state-of-the-art and therefore four times faster than CISC on average