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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: RISC goes CISC?
- Message-ID: <BxKnK2.Aq0@exnet.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 21:55:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.092012.19239@rhein-main.de> <15394@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Nov11.011822.20226@labtam.labtam.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Nov11.011822.20226@labtam.labtam.oz.au> graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill) writes:
- >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 ?
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- The i860 is going down the pan, but the new chip to be used by Intel
- SSD and which will be x86-ish will have a new instruction set. This
- SSD chip is due in 1996. I wonder if it's really the Pentium?
-
- Damon
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