Factors in designing Instruction set Arcitecture
<p>What are the two majors factors to be considered while designing Instruction Set Architecture ?</p>

<p>I know what ISA is . But What are the factors to be considered? I already reviewed Wikipedia but it doesn't help much.</p>

<p><strong>I found this as design issues for ISA.</strong></p>

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<li>Backward Compatibility</li>
<li>Are interrupts needed?</li>
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<p>But are this two factors I am bit confused ! Please help any one ! Preparing For exams of Computer Organization and Architecture </p>