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Originally posted by mattst88 View PostWhere did I say it was the future of computing? I said it was a nice instruction set, which it is.
Dunno if that Alpha of yours can only run Lynx but there was a big grin- and sarcasm emoticon there...
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostRISC *is* the future of computing. It's just a lot more convenient if the RISC processors are hidden behind an x86 instruction decoder
Maybe in another 14 years (in kernel 2.6.397) they will fix some of today's bugs on x86. Of course by then no one will use x86 cpus anyway.
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Dirk Meyer, the current CEO of AMD, was actually the co-architect of the EV4 and EV6 Alpha processors.
Before DEC/Compaq started its downward spiral, there were plans for a single motherboard/chipset to be able to support both Alpha and AMD CPUs. Remember Slot-A Athlons? Well, there were Slot-B Alphas, and Alpha motherboards using AMD chipsets.
Too bad they never got to the stage of producing motherboards that could actually swap CPU architectures.
Check out links listed here for more info: http://alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php/Press_Coverage
There are lots of other cool AMD-Alpha related things that I'll let you discover on your own.
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Originally posted by mattst88 View PostDirk Meyer, the current CEO of AMD, was actually the co-architect of the EV4 and EV6 Alpha processors.
It's pretty neat having a company this big run by a CPU architect... the executive meetings are actually interesting for a changeTest signature
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostRISC *is* the future of computing. It's just a lot more convenient if the RISC processors are hidden behind an x86 instruction decoder
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostCare to explain why it can't run RISC directly? Since I am using Linux with FLOSS drivers anyway, I would like it if I could just flip a switch in the BIOS saying; RISC.
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