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For a transition, how about keeping ONE core that has all of the legacey,
and the rest of the cores, still x86, but optimized, with all the legacy stripped out. That way, all of the newer software gets compiled to the new streamlined x86.

But, that would require cooperation, and much like Microsoft, Intel and AMD benefit from the restricted competition. They sure do not want a standardized architecture that is easy to implement, that would open up the floodgates of competition. They are very happy with the little oligopoly.
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Old techology  Linux User 1 | 04/03/07
x86 should die!  An_Axe_to_Grind | 04/03/07
Wrong. C and C++ should die.  gordon@... | 04/04/07
For a transition, how about keeping ONE core that has all of the legacey,  DonnieBoy | 04/03/07
How is that different...  Anton Philidor | 04/03/07
I am talking staying with x86 architecture, but the legace junk stripped  DonnieBoy | 04/03/07
instruction set  Tundrawyrm | 04/08/07
Or move the legacy processing off the CPU  D. W. Bierbaum | 04/03/07
That might be the solution, move the legacy processing to an emulator.  DonnieBoy | 04/03/07
The Problem is Old Windows; the solutions well known by professionals  mighetto | 04/03/07
Professionals know there is no solution...yet  rschror | 04/03/07
If Windows is the problem ...  kclark@... | 04/03/07
This is already the case for Itanium  Yensi717 | 04/03/07
And look what happened  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/03/07
Code Museums  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/03/07
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CODE AGAIN  BALTHOR | 04/03/07
Chicken before the egg scenario nothing more...  rschror | 04/03/07
x86 ISA is the COBOL of microprocessors, with all the bulkiness imagery  michael_t | 04/03/07
not an 'architecture'  cls@... | 04/03/07
MultiCore  hawkeyeaz1 | 04/03/07
The question still being, who can afford to do this?  ajole | 04/03/07
Virtual Machines  JulesLt | 04/04/07

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