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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: RISC goes CISC?
- Message-ID: <BxMqsB.C5s@exnet.co.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 01:00:10 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.011822.20226@labtam.labtam.oz.au> <BxKnK2.Aq0@exnet.co.uk> <15444@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In article <15444@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >"Will be x86-ish" and "will have a new instruction set"?
- >
- >Am I missing something here? Which will it be - x86-ish, with an x86
- >instruction set, or not x86-ish, with a new instruction set?
-
- More the latter, to the best of my knowledge. That is, it will somehow
- resemble the x86 but won't be one. And it'll be 64-bit. It won't run
- x86 code and it won't run i860 code. And SSD will be the first
- customers and write their own compilers, etc. That's the best we know,
- more or less.
-
- >>This SSD chip is due in 1996. I wonder if it's really the Pentium?
- >
- >I've heard claims of a 64-bit member of the x86 family; *if* the chip
- >has a new instruction set, perhaps they'll have the x86 instruction set
- >as the 32-bit instruction set, and some new instruction set as the
- >64-bit instruction set.
- >
- >Doesn't sound like the Pentium, in any case.
-
- Well, why not? If Intel delays the Pentium until 1994 it would be due
- at about the same time. This is not to say I think the SSD chip *is*
- the Pentium, just that it looks like an interesting coincidence. This
- is not to say I think the SSD chip *is not* the Pentium, either. B^>
-
- Damon
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