Appeal No.97-0582
Application 08/179,926
skilled in the art away from using the more complex CISC
instruction decoders which require the more complex hardware.
Turning to Onishi, we fail to find that Onishi suggests
modifying Portanova with an additional CISC decoder. Onishi is
not concerned with processing different instruction sets, but
instead is concerned with improving the speed for processing
branch instructions. Therefore, we find that neither Portanova
nor Onishi provides any reason or suggestion to modify the
Portanova RISC architecture to provide an additional CISC decoder
to obtain the method or apparatus as claimed by Appellants.
We have not sustained the rejection of claims 1 through 20
under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Accordingly, the Examiner's decision is
reversed.
REVERSED
JAMES D. THOMAS )
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ERROL A. KRASS ) APPEALS AND
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