On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:35:46PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2007-01-29 18:05]: > > x86 isn't RISC, it's not really CISC either. It's more like a > > snapshot of 1976 state-of-the-art in micros with 50,000 volts > > pumped through it. > That's a euphemism. x86 is... hell, it's not even wrong. In its > perversion it quite simply defies description.
Can you imagine the 1976 state-of-the-art in anything else being perpetrated thirty years later? Enormous wing collars? Flares? Yes, those would be indescribably perverted too. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire What profiteth a man, if he win a flame war, yet lose his cool?
