RISC architecture

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Is a kind of: instruction set architecture
Examples:
Notes: microarchitecture
Papers: patterson:cacm:1985, patterson:sigarch:1980

MIPS: A microprocessor architecture [hennessy:micro:1982]
Reduced instruction set computers [patterson:cacm:1985]
The case for the reduced instruction set computer [patterson:sigarch:1980]
ARM Architecture Reference Manual (ARMv5 edition) [seal:book:2000]

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