Re: Tahoe and Alpha Architectures

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:55

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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:
>On 24 Apr 2018 19:52:13 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>On 2018-04-24, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Tahoe architecture and the DEC Alpha architecture both are much 
>>> nicer on the assembly level than the x86 architecture.  Not many here 
>>> would disagree with that. Why does Intel *not* produce modern versions 
>>> of those architectures and PC makers use those???
>>>
>>> Most of modern software can be re-compiled for the new instruction sets.
>>>
>>> Tell me why Intel should *not* adopt these architectures; not really why 
>>> Intel does not...
>>
>>I suspect that the answer begins with a dollar sign.
>
>It does but not the way you mean.  Windows NT runs on Alpha,  i860,
>MIPS R4000, PowerPC, Itanium, and SPARC. 

Windows 10 runs on x86 and ARMv8.   Not any of the aforementioned
dead processor architectures.

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