From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doc Shipley To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VM for Windows/Linux? In-Reply-To: <200211271811.gARIBWw00341@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 02:11:00 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2a6440f8-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Dan Cross wrote: > > Well, the word here is that the Hammer series are "IA-64" *only* if > > you want it to be. By jumper or switch on the mainboard, you'll be > > able to choose x86 mode, or native RISC. > > Great, yet another mode bit. Only this one has to be physically > manipulated! > > > See Doc drool.... > > Because it's a dumb idea, right? Only if you're a fan of x86's "backward-compatible-forever" philosophy. I'm looking forward to seeing an AMD processor that isn't saddled with all of Intel's cruft. Just out of curiosity, what do you have against running a CPU with its own native instruction set? Oh, wait. I'm sorry, my mistake. It won't run *Windows* in native mode. Therefore, it *must* have been a stupid idea, right? Doc