CISC and RISC

Question 1

what is cisc

Answer 1

large instruction set designed to accomplish tasks in as few lines of assembly code as possible.

Question 2

what is RISC

Answer 2

small instruction set where each information is one line of machine code and one clock cycle.

Question 3

3 differences between the two

Answer 3

RISC uses more RAM
compiler does more work with RISC
RISC can make use of piplining due to being one clock cycle and CISC cant.

Question 4

eamples of when risc and cisc be used

Answer 4

CISC - laptops , desktops
RISC - phones , tablets