By: anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com), July 14, 2015 4:12 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on July 13, 2015 7:46 am wrote:
> anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on July 12, 2015 7:42 pm wrote:
>
> > I think you give less credit than they deserve. POWER designers for example would surely be looking
> > at x86 performance and determining where they can improve. Their own mainframe designers actually
> > implement x86-like ordering presumably with relatively good performance. Not that they are necessarily
> > all the same people working on both lines, but at least you know patents would not get in the way
> > of borrowing ideas there. They've been following somewhat similar paths as Intel designers have in
> > this regard, reducing cost of barriers, implementing store address speculation, etc.
> >
>
> Shouldn't that be the x86 designers implement a mainframe like ordering?
> Many people here seem to think Intel invented multiprocessing.
>
>
No. The way I phrased it does not imply x86 came first, in the English language. Actually it would have been complete nonsense if I had used your phrase.
> anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on July 12, 2015 7:42 pm wrote:
>
> > I think you give less credit than they deserve. POWER designers for example would surely be looking
> > at x86 performance and determining where they can improve. Their own mainframe designers actually
> > implement x86-like ordering presumably with relatively good performance. Not that they are necessarily
> > all the same people working on both lines, but at least you know patents would not get in the way
> > of borrowing ideas there. They've been following somewhat similar paths as Intel designers have in
> > this regard, reducing cost of barriers, implementing store address speculation, etc.
> >
>
> Shouldn't that be the x86 designers implement a mainframe like ordering?
> Many people here seem to think Intel invented multiprocessing.
>
>
No. The way I phrased it does not imply x86 came first, in the English language. Actually it would have been complete nonsense if I had used your phrase.
