Someone once said, “RISC is to hardware what UNIX is to software”. What do you think this statement means and is it true?
What will be an ideal response?
This is one of those pretentious statements that people make for effect. UNIX is the operating system loved by
many computer scientists and is often contrasted with operating systems from large commercial organizations
such as Microsoft. By analogy, RISC processors were once seen as an opportunity for small companies and
academics to develop hardware at a time when existing processors were being developed by large corporations at considerable expense. Relatively small teams were required to design MIPS or the ARM processor compared to an Intel IA32 processor. In that sense RISC/UNIX were seen as returning hardware/software to the masses. Over the years, the distinction between RISC and CISC processors has become very blurred, even though computing world is still, to some extent, divided into UNIX and Windows spheres.
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