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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: x86S Specification
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:16:11 -0000 (UTC)
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According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:
>x86's long term survival depends on things out of AMD's and Intel's
>hands. It depends on high volume access to devices people will buy
>new every year or every other year. A PC is not such a thing, while
>a cell phone seems to be.

Intel's never going to catch up in the phone market but they're still
significant in the server and cloud market.

Think about the way that current Intel chips have a native 64 bit architecture
but can still have a 32 bit user mode that can run existing 32 bit application
binaries. So how about if the next generation is native x86S, but can also run
existing 64 bit binaries, even if not as fast as native x86S. They get the usual
cloud operating systems ported to x86S while leaving a path for people to migrate 
their existing applications gradually.

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