On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 16:19 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > Indeed. Paul, take a look at the Intel 64 ISA and you'll see it's a very > > different beast. Intel fixed a lot of the issues with the (more than 20 > > year old really x86 ISA) > > That would be AMD that fixed it, not Intel. Intel tried to push > everybody to a new architecture (Itanium), while AMD revised and > extended i386 to 64 bits. After Itanium failed to catch on in the > marketplace, Intel had to copy AMD's work. That's presumptuous and unfair. Sure, without AMD and others we'd likely be on Itanium (which I actually quite like as an architecture) but Intel 64 isn't just some copy-and-paste effort either. Besides, whatever the history we shouldn't be encouraging people to use plain older x86. Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
