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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (154642)	1/10/2002 11:37:21 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Constantine, Re: "I was merely talking about the instruction set, that should be a straight recompile ( for anyone who knows anything about programming ). SMP and other problems have NOTHING to do with the instruction set and they are more platform/chipset related. There you may see a delay in support as it's usual with AMD." You are assuming an ideal situation. Even the cleanest ISAs are plagued by difficult implementations. It's the subtle things that will produce bugs - like ACPI, interrupts, error protection, etc. My point is that neither the OS nor the applications will be easy to port, since there will be those kinds of subtle differences no matter where you go. wbmw