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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (40331)10/29/1998 3:15:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1573653
 
<Certainly the x86 architecture was a brilliant concept. The farsighted architects at Intel recognized that no program would ever be larger than 64K, and 640K would be the maximum amount of memory necessary for any computer. The entire x86 instruction set was a stroke of far-sighted genius as well.>

You know, it's amazing that about five or six years ago, people were predicting the downfall of x86 and CISC as PowerPC, with its nice and clean RISC architecture, takes over the world. No one counted on Intel to push CISC so far. In that sense, the superscalar Pentium was a milestone in carrying the aging x86 architecture into a new realm of performance.

Now it seems that implementing the x86 architecture in a CISC-to-RISC style is elementary as AMD, IDT, Rise, and Transmeta are all following the same trail that Intel blazed with Pentium and Pentium Pro. So, Scumbria, it's kind of strange that you would ridicule the short-sightedness of the x86 architecture knowing that these days, it's a moot point.

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