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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: RISC goes CISC?
- Message-ID: <15494@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 00:46:16 GMT
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- >>>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 it doesn't run x86 code, like the chip you spoke of, it ain't
- Pentium, which *will* run x86 code, from everything I've heard (in fact,
- I've not heard that it'll run any other code, except perhaps with the
- aid of simulators or binary-to-binary translation, but hey, most people
- are trying to run x86 code on *their* chips, so...).
-
- I've not heard anything to make me believe Pentium will run x86 code in
- some simulation mode, either; from everything I've heard, it's an engine
- intended to run x86 code, even though there may be something inside it
- that "looks", in some sense, like a RISC.
-
- And if it *does* run x86 code, well:
-
- >If Intel delays the Pentium until 1994 it would be due
- >at about the same time.
-
- 1994 and 1996 are "about the same time"?
-