[Info-vax] "x86 has only a few years left in the market place" (was: Re: Free Pascal for VMS ?)

[Scott Dorsey]

seasoned_geek  <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
>On Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 11:27:18 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>> Nobody likes x86-64.  Not even the folks at Intel, judging by the 
>> number of times they've tried to replace it.    
>
>INTEL doesn't have the skills to replace it. That would be why they were caught red handed stealing Alpha tech.

Intel keeps coming out with better architectures... maybe not the iAPX 432,
but the 8096, i860 and i960 were definitely huge steps ahead of the x86
architecturally and, at the time they were introduced, in performance.  But
Intel couldn't sell them.
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."