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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:8737 comp.unix.solaris:711 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex-gw!guy From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Message-ID: <15781@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Date: 5 Dec 92 19:45:52 GMT References: <22947@venera.isi.edu> <id.FOCV.Q52@ferranti.com> <1992Dec1.184115.8699@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 8 Nntp-Posting-Host: auspex.auspex.com >This has very little to do with anything. Even Intel is well aware of the >limitations of the 80x86 architecture. This is why the 80586 (renamed >"pentium") is mostly a RISC chip with a backward compatability mode. Although, from everything I've seen, the "backward compatibility mode" is the only mode that actually executes instructions - i.e., I've seen *no* evidence that there's some "RISC mode" of Pentium with a new instruction set architecture.