Robert Klemme wrote:
CISC processor commands are more powerful, so you need
> multiple RISC commands to do the same amount of work.

The original logic for RISC is it was better to use real estate for 
registers than rarely used instructions. However with the relentless 
march of Moore's law we've not only got to where you can have ocean of 
registers on an X86 chip; you can now have several more complete cores 
on the same die!

That said, we note Solaris was acutually running on X86 so its' an OS 
thing.
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