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On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:56:05AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > There's nothing particularly speedy about the x86 architecture.  The
> > only reason those guys get any performance at all out of their
> > systems is the amazing process technology which results in huge clock
> > rates.  It's still a mid-1970s processor architecture.
>=20
> And that's why all even vaguely modern implementations of it are
> actually RISC CPUs running x86 emulators.
>=20
> I've often wished to be let at the real metal on a modern CPU.  (Well,
> I suppose I can get (close to) that by getting a powerpc or some such.
> I guess I really mean "I've often wished I could get a modern cheap CPU
> without the performance-crippling x86 emulation layer".)

now THAT would be nice. NetBSD/pprorisc? (sure, the name leaves lots to be
desired) but the idea is... yummy. Too bad I have NFI how to do it, if it's
even possible :-\

- Sean

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