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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: more registers for ix86, was: Let's pretend
Message-ID: <3104@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 91 13:09:08 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <5833@labtam.labtam.oz> scott@labtam.labtam.oz (Scott Colwell) writes:

|                                             Imagine what might be produced if
| the silicon technology and the effort that are put into the x86 and 860
| groups was put into just one RISC family rather than the two RISC and one
| CISC family that Intel have today. (i.e. x86, 860, 960)

  I really don't see that any of the lines you mention are suffering
from lack of resources (maybe the 486), and no one CPU would be likely
to fit all the markets and be priced for mass marketing.

  And you don't have to read this group long to realize that some people
will hate everything Intel does, because Intel does it. Not that this is
unique, some people feel the same about IBM or Apple, CISC, etc.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.