OT Re: Apple Goes Intel...

Marvin Johnston marvin at rain.org
Tue Jun 7 10:20:20 CDT 2005


My understanding is that the Pentium processor *is* a RISC processor
with a CISC layer on top. Apparently Intel also offers a licensed
library that allows access to the RISC capability.
 
> IBM seems to be the one remaining major vendor of "worthwhile"
> RISC-powered machines now, since Alpha has been getting squashed by
> HPaq for a while now.
> 
> Pat


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