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To: Ali Chen who wrote (76191)	4/2/2002 2:35:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) of 275872

From The Inquirer: theinquirer.net Microsoft may have Licence to Kill CPUs ...... But what about the processor? Surely it would be far more difficult to produce an entirely new CPU for the Xbox 2? The answer here is that much of Microsoft's plans revolve around the Microsoft Intermediate Language* (MSIL). And Microsoft wants to make Xbox 2 as much of an MSIL machine as possible. It wants a processor that will run MSIL as fast as possible. The processor will also have to retain compatibility with Xbox 1, so the chip will also have to be capable of running x86 instructions at a respectable speed........ I think that if MSFT's .NET plans succeed, the deciding factor in how well a processor runs under window will be how well it runs the IL, for which at this time something like a virtual machine is necessary. I wonder if the next thing for CPUs will be to add ability to run IL natively. There was a lot of talk about machines that would run Java code natively, which has not really achieved any commercial success. Can MSFT succeed where Sun (and others) have not succeeded? Joe

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