On 8/11/2010 9:15 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I agree, the 'Intel Architecture' is not the same old architecture.
It is the same old architecture with bolt-ons.
It has been enhanced through evolution.
In many ways IBM has done the same to the IBM 360 instruction set,
that has been bolted on-to and changed
the same way since the early 1960's when it came out through today
with the Z-series processors.
[Snip] All true. I was more coming at it from the angle that if there
are any significant innovations in processor technology, they're likely
to be gobbled up into the Intel fold. You are more likely to be
assimilated than be able to make a success as a separate entity.
Of course, we all know who's to blame for he ubiquity of Intel...
That said, I think we're on the edge of a virtualization revolution. I'm
not sure what form it will take but I think the inertia from hardware
virtualization is going to spill on over into software. Not Java (VM)
but something not completely dissimilar maybe.
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