By: Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org), November 14, 2014 7:35 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on November 14, 2014 6:28 pm wrote:
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> So *two* other x86 microarchitectures came out basically within a year of Northwood,
> both of them clearly superior.
Btw, while I'm not a huge fan of the P4 microarchitecture, I do have to give it credit for being interesting and very clever in many ways. I think the P4 was <much more impressive architecturally than any of the itanium implementations ever were (or, later on, the thoroughly boring and plodding original atom core).
So it may not have been a success, and I don't like how fragile it was, but it was a very impressive piece of engineering, and did pretty damn radical things. Hats off for that.
Linus
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> So *two* other x86 microarchitectures came out basically within a year of Northwood,
> both of them clearly superior.
Btw, while I'm not a huge fan of the P4 microarchitecture, I do have to give it credit for being interesting and very clever in many ways. I think the P4 was <much more impressive architecturally than any of the itanium implementations ever were (or, later on, the thoroughly boring and plodding original atom core).
So it may not have been a success, and I don't like how fragile it was, but it was a very impressive piece of engineering, and did pretty damn radical things. Hats off for that.
Linus
