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- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!labtam!graeme
- From: graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill)
- Subject: Re: RISC goes CISC?
- Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:18:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.011822.20226@labtam.labtam.oz.au>
- Summary: Intel RISC instruction sets
- References: <1992Nov6.092012.19239@rhein-main.de> <15394@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In article <15394@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- > Do you, or does *anybody* else, have *any* solid evidence for the claim
- > that I've heard advanced on occasion that the 586^H^H^HPentium really
- > has a "native RISC mode" that can really execute "native RISC mode" code
- > directly?
-
- And it would be disappointing (although not un-expected) to find
- Intel introducing yet another (different) RISC instruction set. They
- already have the 860 and the 960, why invent another one ?
-
- Graeme Gill
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