The target back in that day was RISC architectures. The days of CISC architectures was drawing to a close - and we can now say that CISC effectively lost the architecture race.
I’ll see just how many people tell me otherwise before I educate them as to why this is.
The most popular CPU of today is a CISC (Intel x86 line and its AMD clones) but it hasn’t really been expanded much in logical architecture for a couple of decades, nor is there a rush to develop more CISCs. RISCs are easier to pipeline, but what ever happened to the Sparcs that looked for a while like they were going to take over the world?