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Article #6499Re: The dim future of PC gaming.
From: jso... Jeff Somers
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:00
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In article <43qam8$p...@pellew.ntu.edu.au>, nobody <nob...@csufresno.edu> writes: [cut] |> |> Intel P6, AMD K5, and NexGen 586 are all RISC processors emulating |> X86.(hell, you can even feed them their native RISC instuctions and |> bypass X86 instructions entirely). Only Cyrix's M1 is the true X86 |> processor with CISC core. [cut] Not true, the P6 won't allow you to do that. (Forget where I read this; probably either Byte or PC Mag.) I can see why, too, it would force Intel to be backwards compatible with another instruction set. It would be difficult for them tweak their "risc instruction set" for the P7 and beyond if everyone was bypassing the 386 instruction set. jeff s. jso...@marcam.com
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From: jso...@marcam.com (Jeff Somers) Subject: Re: The dim future of PC gaming. Date: 1995/09/21 Message-ID: <43qnu1$d9t@netmon.marcam.com> X-Deja-AN: 110446412 distribution: world references: <1995Sep19.150027.2764@titan.sfasu.edu> <43nnup$biv@steel.interlog.com> <43qam8$pjj@pellew.ntu.edu.au> organization: MARCAM Corporation, Newton, MA. USA newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit