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Why exactly do you care so much?
by vex 11y ago
Why exactly do you care so much?
- POWERfan 11y agoI can't speak for the GP, but POWER is a true RISC ISA, and many prefer it just for that reason.
- megablast 11y agoThere is no such thing as CISC or RISC anymore, what with micro ops.
- rurban 11y agoAs POWERfan said. The intel instruction set is an abomination. You couldn't even thing of something worse, however they managed. Intel needs competition. Everybody else died away. PPC64 is on the open, everybody can make one. This is better than the IBM PC revolution, where you could license it to produce competing parts. Also better than the various ARM chips. We need to break the HW barrier from the last years. CPU speed has stalled, only with new tech, as in the new Z series or Power8 chips Moore's law can be revived. And there are many more arguments to be excited.