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#11
March 26th 10, 02:52 PM
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"what a crock the X86 architecture is"
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
You point out some of the old IBM PC chips that a modern PCI-to-ISA bridge has to emulate. But there's both less and more than what you stated. There's less in that one doesn't throw away a RTC. A protected mode PC operating system still needs real-time clock hardware. Wasn't the HPET supposed to replace the RTC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer Regards. 
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#12
March 27th 10, 09:06 PM
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"what a crock the X86 architecture is"
On Mar 24, 5:38*pm, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard J.deBoynePollard-
wrote: It's not as if there is a whole 8086 in every x86 CPU that can be thrown out to make space. No, all the design flaws of the original 8086 architecture are still around to haunt the processors in 32-bit and 64-bit mode. The good guys (680x0) lost. John Savard
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