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【正文】 0 series of chips that gave us the courage needed to embark on the project for the Cambridge Ring. The RISC Movement and Its Aftermath Early puters had simple instruction sets. As time went on designers of mercially available machines added additional features which they thought would improve performance. Few parative measurements were done and on the whole the choice of features depended upon the designer’s intuition.In 1980, the RISC movement that was to change all this broke on the world. The movement opened with a paper by Patterson and Ditzel entitled The Case for the Reduced Instructions Set Computer.Apart from leading to a striking acronym, this title conveys little of the insights into instruction set design which went with the RISC movement, in particular the way it facilitated pipelining, a system whereby several instructions may be in different stages of execution within the processor at the same time. Pipelining was not new, but it was new for small puters The RISC movement benefited greatly from methods which had recently bee available for estimating the performance to be expected from a puter design without actually implementing it. I refer to the use of a powerful existing puter to simulate the new design. By the use of simulation, RISC advocates were able to predict with some confidence that a good RISC design would be able to outperform the best conventional puters using the same circuit technology. This prediction was ultimately born out in practice.Simulation made rapid progress and soon came into universal use by puter designers. In consequence, puter design has bee more of a science and less of an art. Today, designers expect to have a roomful of, puters available to do their simulations, not just one. They refer to such a roomful by the attractive name of puter farm. The x86 Instruction Set Little is now heard of preRISC instruction sets with one major exception, namely that of the Intel 8086 and its progeny, collectively referred to as x86. This has bee the dominant instruction set and the RISC instruction sets that originally had a considerable measure of success are having to put up a hard fight for survival.This dominance of x86 disappoints people like myself who e from the research academic and the puter field. No doubt, business considerations hav
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