Rather the DEC VAX and perhaps MC68k are poster childs of CISC. For a discussion of RISC vs. CISC see
> http://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html
or its extended version
> http://yarchive.net/comp/risc_definition.html
and look at the tables there. You will see that among the processors on the "CISC side", the Intel i486 is nearer to RISC than many other CISC architectures.
Rather the DEC VAX and perhaps MC68k are poster childs of CISC. For a discussion of RISC vs. CISC see
> http://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html
or its extended version
> http://yarchive.net/comp/risc_definition.html
and look at the tables there. You will see that among the processors on the "CISC side", the Intel i486 is nearer to RISC than many other CISC architectures.