[plug] ia64 linux = P4? & general Q re speed and if anyone has tried it

[Mike]

At 12:34 PM 3/10/2001 +0800, "John Knight" <anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com>
wrote:
 (Explicitly Parallel 
>..... something or other!), which departs completely from intel's former 
>RISC architecture.

Aye - I don't think Intel's x86 stuff was risc - cept perhaps the 4004
which was so damn reduced it was useless... Lots of people use the 8051
which is fairly risc but afaik, the 286 and on are all cisc,

rgds

mike