Request from Intel's Museum

From: emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>
Date: Wed Oct 9 12:47:00 2002

Ross Archer wrote:
>
> It surely takes a great deal of inspiration, creativity,
> and engineering talent to take something as ill-suited
> as the x86 architecture and get this kind of performance
> out of it. IMHO.
>
> In other words, making x86 fast must be a lot like
> getting Dumbo off the air. That ought to count as
> some kind of technical achievement. :)

Just take a RISC core, translate all your CISC instructions
to RISC, and tell your marketing to avoid saying anything about RISC ;-)
 
> Imagine if the same amount of effort was applied
> to a sensible machine, like MIPS, Alpha, or ARM!
> Or even a 64 bit-wide Z80 :)

Oh, intel is trying ;-)
To put the same effort in the IA-64. But still doesn't fly.
And, as a side note, they probably get itanium earlier to
classiccmp than to general market. Cooking for 9 years already ;-)

cheers
Received on Wed Oct 09 2002 - 12:47:00 BST