How the RISC acronym faded from ARM's name over decades of processor history

A developer recounts their path from hand-keying hexadecimal machine code on a Samsung SPC-1000 to writing ARM assembly on embedded Linux boards. They describe learning MASM in a systems course and studying the RISC design ideas of pipelining, hazard handling, compiler techniques, and caching. The author notes that the RISC-versus-CISC rivalry later seemed largely pointless, since Intel's Pentiums borrowed RISC ideas and the RISC instruction count was never truly small. Their own experience with ARM, XScale, and Linux smartphone projects led them to realize the R in ARM no longer clearly means RISC.