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To: Paul Engel who wrote (40373)	10/29/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Paul, I guess the instruction set was just fine. I have to agree for several reasons. 1. The complexity of the x86 architecture has paid the salaries of thousands of engineers for a long time. A nice simple RISC architecture would have put a lot of good hardware people out of work. 2. The complexity of the x86 architecture has paid the salaries of thousands of compiler writers. A nice simple RISC architecture would have put a lot of good software people out of work. 3. The complexity of the x86 architecture makes this thread possible. This is just too much fun. Scumbria