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Meanings of CISC in English

(Computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip.

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            Examples for "complex instruction set computing"
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            CISC, or complex -instruction set computing, is a way of designing processors that's very power hungry.
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            Usage of CISC in English
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            CISC, or complex-instruction set computing, is a way of designing processors that's very power hungry.
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            CISC through the time