What was/were the original motivation(s) behind the CISC processor-design philosophy?
A) CISC instruction sets could be implemented with simple hardware, decreasing hardware-design cost.
B) Programs written for CISC processors executed quickly because they took full advantage of pipelines.
C) CISC instruction sets made it easy to code in assembly language, and programs consumed less memory.
D) Complex instructions were more-frequently used than simple instructions.

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CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing) was designed to make assembly language programming easier and to reduce the amount of memory needed by using complex instructions that could perform multiple tasks in a single instruction.

What Was/were the Original Motivation(s) Behind the CISC Processor-Design Philosophy