• Spedwell@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Right concept, except you’re off in scale. A MULT instruction would exist in both RISC and CISC processors.

    The big difference is that CISC tries to provide instructions to perform much more sophisticated subroutines. This video is a fun look at some of the most absurd ones, to give you an idea.