[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[Scott Dorsey]

David Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>Regardless of whatever their previous source, today's x86 CPUs is about 
>as good as it gets, today.  Shitty beginnings or not, run the benchmarks 
>and weep ....

And this is in fact the case, but it is the case only because Intel has put
vast amounts of engineering and money into making the pig fly.

It is a shame that money could not have been used to develop a better
architecture in the first place.  Intel tried to do that with the i860 and
i960 but just couldn't get the market interested.  But you can't blame them
for not trying.
--scott

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