Intel x86 architecture is a terrible piece of

[Babs]

Intel x86 architecture is a terrible piece of technology hoisted upon masses who choose to not choose better

[klitzke]

Much like your posts.

[finerty]

Then I am ok. I am in with the in crowd. Thank you!

[Marsie]

I think you meant 'foisted' didn't you?

[kolar]

Brain barf. Thank you

[coward]

It is the instruction set that has the best software support. The instructions themselves don't matter much anymore, because the CPUs are all RISC internally anyway. I've heard the argument that we have gotten to a point where CISC is actually better than RISC as an external (to the CPU) instruction set anyway, because one CISC instruction can represent many RISC instructions, so the code takes up less memory, and memory bandwidth/cache space are more limiting factors than raw number crunching power of the CPUs.

[seller]

Intel Xeon is no where near RISC internally or externally. One thing Intel has it going for them is process technology. Everything else about Intel processors is fundamentally distasteful from an architectural and design point of view. It is a pain to program for x86 architecture. Even after that as many "IDE" tools are available.

[mccrorey]

AMD chips certainly are, and I believe Intel's are as well, but I'd have to dig up an article for that. Why are you running into problems with the instruction set anyway? Are you doing assembly language programming?

[dolinar]

According to an article I just found, the 486 was Intel's last true CISC chip. All that have come since have been internally RISC.

[hagerty]

Itanium is Intel take on CISC+RISC Xeon is still CISC. or 20 yrs of BIOS code would just break.

[laxton]

No, you don't understand what I'm saying The external interface to the CPU - the instruction set that software uses - is still xx, which is CISC. However, the CPU internally decodes those instructions into simpler RISC instructions. One CISC instruction the CPU receives might become a number of RISC instructions, transparently to you as the programmer.

[waag]

Try this: install the linux source code go to the top of the tree find . | xargs grep -e 'crap' -e 'monkeys' -e 'disaster' -e 'fuck' and count the occurrences with regards to Intel xx specifiy