I don't like CISC because I think it is an inefficient CPU. More instructions equals more transistors equals more heat etc. The RISC always used to be faster, at the same frequency, and still is to my knowledge.
Darule, you statements about RISC and CISC are incredibly outdated. Even the words you later reported are painflully old (the Mac "ruling the RISC market"? this used to happen many years ago). Modern x86 processors are mixed CISC/RISC architectures, and they are frankly more powerful and efficient than PowerPC processors still alive are.
Anyway, Motorola 68K were CISC microprocessors and this helped a lot in developing a tiny operating system and simple applications. RISC is the absolute negation of all this, and the necessity to write longer routines to get the same results obviosuly doesn't help so much: it's better having less transistors continuously working and consuming power, or more transtistors which can be but down to a consume-less Cn state when they aren't needed?
I think all this love for RISC architectures is the natural son of the hate for Microsoft and Intel.
Anyway, if I had so much money to spend (but there would need more to accomplish the mission) I would buy all Amiga IPs, open source anything related to AmigaOS 3.1 and move to a new platform and operating system, trying to keep all the look'n'feel of AmigaOS, but focusing on stream multiprocessing and use of GPUs general purpose features. My favourite platform for now would be a X64 mainboard coupled with a RV770 GPU from AMD. With a total cost of no more than € 249, we would get a powerful and energy-saving computer with cpu, GPU, northbridge, southbridge, audio and ethernet link.
