CISC

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  CISC
       n 1: an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the
            intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
            [syn: {Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada}]
       2: (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has
          a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu


          chip [syn: {complex instruction set computing}, {complex
          instruction set computer}] [ant: {reduced instruction set
          computing}, {reduced instruction set computing}, {reduced
          instruction set computing}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CISC
       Complex Instruction Set Computer (CPU)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CISC
       
          {Complex Instruction Set Computer}