2009/7/6 PeterH <peterh5...@rattlebrain.com>: > > > On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:27 PM, MaGioZal wrote: > >> The RISC had a lot of promises, but many times hadn't delivered them. > > It's not the processor, it's the implementation. > > IBM is making huge quantities of PPC RISCs. > > Sun is still making its RISCs.
Well, true, but for how long under Oracle's reign? I wouldn't bet on it. At best, SPARC will be offloaded to Fujitsu or spun out. > Intel's CISCs are doing well. To say the least. But one might point out that in a sense, the modern Core2/i5/i7 etc. chips, all derivatives of the Pentium Pro, are in a way superscalar chips that actually run RISC micro-ops underneath, merely with on-the-fly translation from x86 into µops. > And, perhaps the oldest architecture in continuous use, the IBM > System/360/370/390 (also called z/System), also a CISC, is now in its > 45-th year, and shows no signs of being gone any time soon. IBM is a little cagey on this but aren't the modern z9 CPUs based in some way on POWER? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
