[Info-vax] How about RdB for x86 VMS?

[Shark8]

On 9/18/2014 11:18 PM, David Froble wrote:
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> I finally see the downside of the x86 port ....
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> JF will then start blasting away at the x86 designers and vendors ....

Well, to be fair IBM and AMD could use a bit of blasting:
-- Intel has sold off pretty much everything it developed itself, 
HW-wise; which seems to indicate it could be going the SW route (I'm not 
sure they'll do another architecture, though they certainly *could* -- 
and with the patents and R&D-team they have, they could make a pretty 
interesting one; say with HW support for [OOP-]objects, direct HLL 
support [say being able to load RTLs into a co-processor, on-chip 
parsers], generic VM co-processor, etc)
-- AMD needs a little prodding; they've kind of settled down and don't 
seem to be as innovative as they were several years ago. [IMO]

And x86 /really/ is pretty ugly insofar as an instruction-set goes.