By Peter Cochrane
Published: Wednesday 02 July 2008
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Richard
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Designer
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An interesting thought but what a shame that the "wrong" architecture has won.
Designers have used ingenious tricks to extend Intel's original architecture and instruction set.
As so often, alternative architectures which were better technically, failed commercially.
With current moves towards increased abstraction & virtualisation, perhaps we'll finally get better CPU architectures?
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Anonymous
An interesting thought but what a shame that the "...
Richard
Aren't OSs becoming irrelevant as the browser beco...
giles palmer
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Not any more!
Peter
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Richard = When did the best-of-the-best ever win? ...
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Giles = If only...I'm not sure that we are so far ...
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Greater segmentation will ultimately cause fragmen...
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