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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Paul Engel who wrote (42016)11/20/1998 7:24:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574638
 
Paul,

No - they wanted to bring the x86 to a rapid death.
Thet failed.


Unfortunately for IBM, the PowerPC architecture is almost as lame as the x86 architecture. i.e. irregular instruction encoding, string instructions, misaligned data, segmentation, etc. Power PC was designed by committee.

Scumbria