What do most people say for “Name a processor instruction set architecture”?

The usual first answers are x86, ARM and x86 64. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a processor instruction set architecture”?

36 in all: 3 on The Tip, 6 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 18 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a processor instruction set architecture” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “ARC” and the longest is “Motorola 68000”.

Computer Science trivia

Name a processor instruction set architecture

“Name a processor instruction set architecture” is one of 34 computer science prompts in Icillion. Of its 36 accepted answers, 3 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.

The tip of the iceberg

These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.

x86
ARM
x86 64

One step down

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

RISC V
MIPS
PowerPC
SPARC
6502
Z80

Answers by level

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	6	25
The Deep	8	50
The Abyss	18	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 8 answers starting with A, I, M, P and V. The Abyss has 18 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

By the numbers

36 answers in total, 10 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “ARC”. Longest: “Motorola 68000”.
M, P and A are the most common first letters; together they start 42% of the answers.
3 answers can be typed more than one way: “Itanium” counts as IA 64.