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by ZDNet Author  |  July 20, 2006 2:50pm PDT  |  Image 7 of 8

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RISC Architecture
John Cocke, who used to leave a trail of cigarette butts all over the place at IBM Research, according to many, came up with the reduced instruction set computer, or RISC, chip architecture, which is central to Sun's Sparc chips and IBM's Power family.

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