Hi Cameron,
On 08 Jun 97, 19:13, you wrote to Flemming Sondergaard
 CC> My prediction of the future is that a chip with a completely
 CC> new arch. that still supports the x86 instruction set will become very
 CC> popular and in the future the x86 will be dropped.
The rumors I heard is that the Pentium (and it's close relatives) will be the
last Intel processor to run the x86 instruction set 'natively'. Future 
processors are supposed to have natively a more efficient instruction set and 
the early models would use some software+hardware instruction translation.
I would not be surprised if Intel currently has problems making such hardware 
out-perform high-end Pentiums with x86 instructions. That would be a 
requirement for successfull marketing ....
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