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thing to remember is this is not an OS issue but a instruction set issue. X86 code fits on a few sheets of paper that any assembley code monkey can use. MMX added a few pages but its still the most basic of building blocks. Windows tries to ignore assembley in favor of a vast 50+ volume set of C code that that does Omni logic blocks that always leave extra code hanging off. stripping Windows down and rebuilding without C would be the best first step.

as far as the idea of upper flowing logic unit that dont use x86 I would rather they made more "pipes" like the GPUs and another page of 64bit code to sort it better. the issue is 8bit 16 bit 32 bit 64 bit instruction sets IMO
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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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