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I am not so sure that I can agree with your assumption that RISC is 'better'. If you look at what is happening in the Computer industry, people are starting to run into bus speed and memory access limitations. RISC attempts to get better performance by running smaller operations faster while CISC allows more work to be done in a single operation. As you start breaking the 50Mhz range, chip prices start to soar as well as heat and RF problems begin to have an impact. The only way around this is to start doing more things at once (as we are starting to see on things like the RS6000).