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

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44326)	12/29/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572601

Tenchusatsu, I was curious if they could both co-exist and thus make the transition easy. The processor would deal with whatever code it got, risc or x86, but be a lot faster with risc and the appsmakers would migrate to risc as they upgraded. I would be happy to see the x86 legacy apps be one with the dodos, like Apple did with their transitions, they pushed them off cliffs. Possibly Intel and MSFT saw this and became wiser/dumber/scared and so the x86 lumbered on. I see what you mean about blurring the line between risc/cisc as the optimal architecture is evolved with bits of both. Search for the holy grail comes to mind. That Microprocessor report looks like a good source, and I will try to hunt it up. Not likely to fully understand it though. Bill