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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (40333)	10/29/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573629

Tench, 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. It is hardly a moot point. Even though x86 designs have been able to keep within the performance ballpark, the price has been that implementations have become incredibly complicated. Alpha is by far the fastest microprocessor, and it is also the cleanest architecture. That is not a coincidence. Even Intel recognizes the x86 problem, thus IA64. PowerPC, with its nice and clean RISC architecture Power PC is not a nice clean architecture. It carries decades of legacy IBM Power junk, including strings, misaligned data, big/little endian issues, etc. Scumbria