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To: Paul Engel who wrote (70512)	1/5/1999 1:56:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul -- Isn't it true a mpu will run one OS better than it will run another? Doesn't i486 run Win 3.1 better than it runs on Win98? Isn't it true that one OS can be more easily implemented on one cpu (Linux on PII) than it can on on another (Linux on 8086?). Would one expect that a team upgrading and extending an existing OS might be able to get a better outcome if the designers of the next generation of the mpu were cooperative and collaborative. I remember spending $4.5 million of Uncle Sam's money trying to get some software to run on Illiac IV -- a 64 processor parallel processor (which cost $30 million more). I know nothing about how to do it, but it seemed at the time if the designers had spent more time thinking about data paths and creating redundant communications, enhancing or optimizing the set of hardwired commans, the software job would have been much easier. But software and hardware weren't talking and were in different orgs. It took a long time for parallel processing to recover. Software people tell me that x86 is a dog that always seems to be having its last day. It is said to have about 40% overhead that requires Intel and the others to work exra hard to compete with RISC. Good things our hardware guys are 40% smarter. Too bad about Microsoft. If they don't chose to implement the OS on your mip, you are dead. You can't do it. If MS makes a lousy version for you, you are finished in the windows mrkt.

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