Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:takemehomegrandma wrote:
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Jim wrote:
(but then we don't really want to get down to what is really running at the core of some "X86" cpus).
You mean how they are all RISC under the hood?
Not that it matters one bit. It was a long time that thing stopped to matter. A PPC CPU saying "RISC processors are a better solution" to a current Intel Core i3/i5/i7 CPU, is like an A500 saying "Only Amiga makes it possible" to a PS4.
Yep, not many people realize that processors no longer directly execute their opcodes.
I think the last hard coded cpu may have been the 6809.
As to the rest, its really a pointless argument these days isn't it?
And we don't need that much horsepower.
Today's PPC and X64 cpus are more powerful then we need.
Not that we can't always use more power.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
