Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:42:40 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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In article <...> someone wrote: >> unfortunantly for them the core CPU speeds became uncoupled from the >> memory speeds and skyrocketed up to the point where CISC cores are as fast >> or faster then the 'high speed' RISC cores.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:30:50AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Hmm.. are there any RISC Cores which run even closely to CISC Speeds? > And why not? Is this only the financial power of Intel?
There is one other: x86 binary compatibility.
Looks like the beginning and end of it to me.
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