CPU Instructions Q.

[N7VQM]

Atheist wrote:
As I said in my first post, msxp, is gonna go down IN FLAMES!!! They're at 1 -1.5 gigs of HD space now, then combine that with RISC, where you need more commands!!

I must have missed something.  Where did Microsoft say they were planning support for any so-called RISC chips?  AFAIK, MS isn't going to support 64-bit anything besides IA64 or x86-64.

[N7VQM]

Atheist wrote:
Hello N7VQM,

The author doesn't call it RISC or CISC, because there's a new boy in town, by the name of E.P.I.C.

There's not many consumer processors that are truely RISC or CISC. There may not be any.  Read another of Hannibal's articles.

So billy will have to make a choice, throw the baby out with the bath water, or program for backwards compatability, either way, it will be a HUGE set back. Code BLOAT or almost total incompability with old apps.

I really don't think it's going to be that bad concidering that memory in a Windows environment is already virtualized.  Also, Win64 is already running on IA64 machines.  Win32 apps are slower than slow mainly because the Itanium is emulating the IA32 ISA.  I expect that Intel will perk that up in the future.  As for code bloat, I can't say;  I've not had opportunity to survey an IA-64 machine.

I think we are at a nexus of computing, where Amiga Inc.'s fortunes could literally change overnight.

I think that if any fortunes were to change over night, it would be Linux.  Linux seems to be comming into it's power curve.