Re: The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect

On 08/31/07 21:38, Paul Raulerson wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: JF Mezei [mailto:jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:44 PM
To: Info-VAX@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect
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Like it or not, 8086 is the industry standard, and its future is NOT in
question. IA64's future is in question, and with CSI, its future will
continue to be in question, especially since the 8086 will scale even
higher into IA64's market niche.

I hate to point this out, but the 8086 has not had a future since around
1985 or so.

Convincing JF to use the proper terminology is as likely as
convincing Tom Cruise that Xenu did *not*, in fact, "[bring]
billions of frozen people to Earth 75 million years ago, [stack]
them around volcanoes and [blow] them up with hydrogen bombs,
creating swarms of disembodied alien souls known as Body Thetans"

Quoted from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera_in_Scientology_doctrine

The current set of X86 and X64 chips bear as much resemblance
to the 8086 as does an Alpha to a PDP-8.

The *chips* bear little resemblance, but the *binaries* will still
run perfectly well.

Most all (non-SIMD) usermode x86-64 instructions are just 64-bit
extensions of the original 8086 instructions.

The IA64 does seem to have a future, if not the "take over the world" future
Intel might once have envisoned.
It is not really any less secure than Power or other alternative arch's.

You, of all people, should know better.

POWER 6 current *ships* at a peak of 4.7GHz, and prototypes have hit
6GHz.

I'll be very surprised if Tukwila beats 3GHz.

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
.

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