On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, David Eisner wrote:
> David Zakar wrote:
> > a certain extent. Andy wasn't absolutely wrong or right - the assumption
> > his prediction rested upon ("RISC vs CISC") simply became untrue.
> >
>
> Tanenbaum predicted, in January 1992, that the x86 architecture was "not
> going to be around all that long."
>
> -David
>
I think DMZ's statement was because there really isn't a RISC v. CISC
battle being waged anymore; RISC chips have fancy-shmancy multimedia
optimizations now, and CISC chips have RISC-ish cores. Or so goes the
rumor. I'll ask my brother-in-law at Intel, I'm sure he'll weigh in on
the matter. :)
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Brian C. Merrell
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