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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (53598)	9/2/2001 12:39:21 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Lets not even get into that debate about who's design is who's intergraph.com intergraph.com

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (53598)	9/2/2001 3:38:19 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 275872

"On the other hand, the irregular nature of the Netburst core is due to a finer understanding of the habits of the x86 instruction set." Habits? Of instruction set? The x86 ISA is known for two decades. What is changing are "habits" how the instruction compiles are optimized for evolving processor architecture. Is not it well known that P4 sucks on "habitual" code as compared to Athlon? And all you Intel PR flocks were crying that all binaries need to be recompiled to take advantage of the P4 "irregular nature"? So, what "finer understanding" are you talking about? The only understanding is that, due to dominant market position, Intel can steer PC industry (and software development) into whatever direction that favors their architecture. Athlon was a perfect processor for customers because of reduced cost of ownership. Intel broke all this and forced industry into new spiral of software recompiles, and new round of hardware spiral, so all poor folks mainboard/system makers have no time to cash in on stable platforms. And all your rambling about micro and macro ops is largely irrelevant and ridiculous, and you agree with that in your own last paragraph about micro-architectural specs. - Ali