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The question still being, who can afford to do this?
I mean, if you ask most folks to buy the x86 chip, or pay twice as much for the new cool "will be faster than anything you ever saw if anyone writes any code for it" dual core x86 + new ISA, what are most folks going to do, especially in the enterprise? They'll buy the cheaper but still fast x86 that fills the need. That is a LOT of cost and risk to lay a new product out there and hope that a: people buy it, and b: someone will write something for the new part of it.
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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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