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To: Scumbria who wrote (72291)	1/27/1999 3:39:00 PM
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>> The same principles that produced high clock speeds on the 21164 can be applied to x86. Deep pipelines, extra clocks to access the L1, etc. There is nothing magical about designing a high MHz x86 microprocessor. It just requires an architect who can shake his addiction to SPEC. Apparently the Willamette? design team has such an architect.<< I don't disagree that DEC could have produced a high speed X86 arch; they have/had a very talented team. However, it is not as easy as you make it out to be. The main problems are: using a CISC arch and keeping downward compatibility as against using a cleaner RISC Alpha based arch, and making the design such that it can be mass produced for consumers; it is not obvious at least what you say could be easily done. Actually Dirk Meyer left DEC from Alpha design team to lead K7 effort at AMD, and that arch is as close an answer to your question about what DEC could have possibly done with the X86 arch. Which Willamette architect are you talking about now?

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