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


To: Paul Engel who wrote (42041)11/22/1998 2:33:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1574680
 
Paul,

I thought PowerPC was supposed to be a "pure" RISC chip that avoided all these arcane problems.

No. Power PC carried many years of ugly legacy from the IBM Power architecture. The only true RISC architecture is Alpha, which not surprisingly is also the highest performance.

Scumbria