Apple Goes Intel...

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "9000 VAX" <vax9000 at gmail.com>
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>On 6/6/05, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/7/05, O. Sharp <ohh at drizzle.com> wrote:
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>> > I think most of the eggs are in one basket now, and not a very reliable
>> > basket at that.  :(  Opinions?
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>> It's a sad day; the end of an era. Every major computer platform in
>> the world runs on the oldest, and arguably weakest and cruftiest, CPU
>> architecture there is. CISC has won.
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>CISC deserve it. CISC has compact code size, thus higher cache hit
>rate. DEC will do better with faster VAX than with Alpha.

Hi
 Thanks for making this point. Intel uses a RISC machine inside
as does most any other serious processor company. They can
do this because once past the bus bottleneck, one can use more
bus width inside for speed while using a CISC coding outside
for compaction.
 I predict that eventually, people will realize that they should
be building a uP in every RAM chip. At that point, we may see
a revival of the RISC engine visible to the programmer. Lets
face it, right now, it is mostly a RAM chip with a processor,
it is just that they call it a processor with RAM ( cache )
and not the other way around.


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>vax, 9000
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>> New there really is only one battle left: Unix versus Windows. Windows
>> 'Longhorn' versus OS X 10.5, 'Leopard'. The leftovers go to Linux,
>> which is Unix anyway. So much for diversity.

 Although, it is most likely good for my company in the short
term, it is most likely bad for computer development in the long
run :(
Dwight

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