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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).

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

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:


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

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