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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: 31 Mar 1996 15:14:28 GMT
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- Patrick Sheffield (psheffield@earthlink.net) wrote:
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- : Very interesting! This would mean that one could get a bit more life out of a
- : CISC based instruction set by properly aligning all opcodes (effectively
- : padding them all to 32 bits). It would be a bit more memory expensive, but
- : then you could take that RISC advantage and design your processor accordingly.
- : You'd have to have a loader that set everything up properly, but then you
- : could run older programs at much higher speeds without re-compiling.
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- the loader is 'dynamic', amd, cyrix, intel x86 have risc core.
- The 586 can effectivly execute 2 instructions per cycles, the 686 if
- I recall 3... Also what intel do to extend the life is droping feature
- of old version and implementing new features. Why do you think a P6
- run old code slower then a P5 ?
-
- : Why you'd want to go to all that trouble, I'm not sure, but it is an interest-
- : ing mental exercise...
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- You might want to check intel website... and read on their latest stuff,
- and check specmark, etc... The new addition/feature is called mmx.
-
- I dont follow the CPU market, but I was told that for a short while the
- 200mhz P6 was the fastest integer CPU in the world. The R1000 wasn't out,
- the dec at the time didn't have their 350mhz alpha,...
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- Minimum the x86 will prosper for the next 2 years.
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- Stephan
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