Understanding Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC)

Variation A

A kind of computer architecture that has a large number
of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip

Variation B

A processor where each instruction can perform several
low-level operations such as memory access, arithmetic
operations or address calculations.

Variation C

Pronounced sisk. Most personal computers, use a
CISC architecture, in which the CPU supports as many as
two hundred instructions.

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