On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, James Bottomley wrote:

quoted

Well then what is "really risc"? RISC is an old beaten down marketing
term
AFAICT and ARM claims it too.

Reduced Instruction Set Computer.  This is why we're unlikely to have
complex atomic instructions: the principle of risc is that you build
them up from basic ones.

RISC cpus have instruction to construct complex atomic actions by the cpu
as I have shown before for ARM.

Principles always have exceptions to them.

(That statement in itself is a principle that should have an exception I
guess. But then language often only makes sense when it contains
contradictions.)