death to x86

[smokey]

/* Ranting!! */

With all of the (future) developments working on the x86 and soon to be x86-64 architectures I will NOT be surprised if it dies for one reason or another. This could be because of their (Intel and AMD's) attempts to continuously hack extras onto this two decade old architecture.

The windows platform could also lead to the death of the x86 because users of this platform and of windows who upgrade will be denied basic computer freedoms such as being able to code your own apps and copy documents from source a to b.


/* Ok thats enough ranting for this minute */

Some feedback would be great!

btw. quick note
It's probably just my overly paranoid delusions but am I welcome here on the MES forums? just being my usual paranoid self    

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: void smokey_mcp0t ]

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: void smokey_mcp0t ]

[psyjax]

huh... why woulden't you be welcome?

[lazygamer]

Any way to make software that can take X86 commands from a program, then convert them into equiavlents for a new architecture? What about making a new architecture that has a high degree of X86 compatibility, without a degrade in superiority over X86?

Ya ya if you want to 0ld$k00l 10 years from now as a hobby, get an old X86 etc. Can it be done or not?  

I admit, if there was new thinking in game design in a linux future(less corp more gamer), and Wind0ze was dead, I would wholeheartedly support a new revolutionary chip.

[voidmain]

It's already been done. HP has built these chips that are part RISC and part x86 and can run code from either. You probably can't afford them though, they are used on high end systems.

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Maybe they still haven't done it but are still working toward it:

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-816291.html?legacy=zdnn

Damn they're slow. I went to a presentation on the subject in the HP offices a couple of years ago (had to sign a non-disclosure agreement because they were still in the development stages).
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[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Kintaro]

86 sux0rz

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by void main:

Damn they're slow. I went to a presentation on the subject in the HP offices a couple of years ago (had to sign a non-disclosure agreement because they were still in the development stages).

but you're disclosing it to us now...

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:


but you're disclosing it to us now...

I didn't disclose anything. In fact I said much less about it than what is printed in the article. In fact I really don't know much about it at all. We were looking at some new systems and they gave us about an hour on the subject of the new chip and what it's capabilities were going to be. I have to admit that I personally wasn't very impressed because I had no need to run any x86 software.

[preacher]

Simply put x86 is an old architecture, just like unix is an old OS. Everyone knows that it takes time to reach perfection.

[lazygamer]

WHAT?! So you mean the ancient x86 is not a cheap shoddy massmarket piece of shit, but a work in progress?

[choasforages]

umm, lets see, m68k. during the mid 1990's they burried   it and in most places replaced it with ppc, sun did so with the sparc, apple with the ppc, and NeXT got bought by apple. hell, even the amiga is heading towards ppc. why don't they replace x86 with alpha or something. too bad intel and microsoft are wayy too close

[ December 25, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]