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RISC is not about the number of instructions but rather what the instructions do. The famous example of CISC gone to its logical extreme is the VAX's polynomial multiply instruction, which ended up being almost a full program in a single instruction. RISC tends to go the other way, focusing on things that are easy for hardware to do and leaving anything else to software.
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