By: Mark Roulo (nothanks.delete@this.xxx.com), August 4, 2014 8:43 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Yuhong Bao (yuhongbao_386.delete@this.hotmail.com) on August 3, 2014 2:24 pm wrote:
> http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/08/03/macintel-the-end-is-nigh
From the article: "The x86 nickname used to designate Wintel chips originates from the 8086 processor introduced in 1978 – itself a backward-compatible extension of the 8088"
But the 8088 was released in 1979 ... one year after the 8086.
As others here have pointed out, the "facts" in the article are either old or wrong.
And I see folks still pushing the idea that RISC has a huge edge over x86 for large CPUs ... it worked so well for PowerPC.
> http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/08/03/macintel-the-end-is-nigh
From the article: "The x86 nickname used to designate Wintel chips originates from the 8086 processor introduced in 1978 – itself a backward-compatible extension of the 8088"
But the 8088 was released in 1979 ... one year after the 8086.
As others here have pointed out, the "facts" in the article are either old or wrong.
And I see folks still pushing the idea that RISC has a huge edge over x86 for large CPUs ... it worked so well for PowerPC.