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   Anton Ertl to BGB   
   Re: Intel's Software Defined Super Cores   
   18 Sep 25 05:27:15   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   BGB  writes:   
   >Still sometimes it seems like it is only a matter of time until Intel or   
   >AMD releases a new CPU that just sort of jettisons x86 entirely at the   
   >hardware level, but then pretends to still be an x86 chip by running   
   >*everything* in a firmware level emulator via dynamic translation.   
      
   Intel has already done so, although AFAIK not at the firmware level:   
   Every IA-64 CPU starting with the Itanium II did not implement IA-32   
   in hardware (unlike the Itanium), but instead used dynamic translation.   
      
   There is no reason for Intel to repeat this mistake, or for anyone   
   else to go there, either.   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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