Posted 05/12/2009 at 05:07:23am

 Hey, thanks for the historical timeline, nicely done.

  Yes, and talkin'  about memories'  ;)

 I realize that without our x86 crappy architecture there wouldn't obvusouly be what we see PC-wise today,... along with this Magazine. 

But, as we all knew, the "x86" architecture was and still is a DOG !!!, from Assem.line instr. right on up. It was crap. It definitely isn't "AWESOME" -unless you mean awesome as in shitty ?!

 Go a little farther back now, (late 70's through early/mid 80's). The Apple, Atari. Amiga, aka Motorola 68xxx uP's. Now those were light-years ahead of Intels 'x86 junk.  Not to mention the RISC/DSP's (The original ones also being from TI, Motorola,..., and yes, AMD's RISC's).  I think AT&T invented the very first RISC/DSP in 1978.

  Anyway, now those were AWESOME architectures (atleast for their time), built for programmers from Assembler right on up !

 But just like anything toooooo GOOD! for consumers', (just like lets see, GM scrapping their Electric vehicle 15+ years ago, and now GM is scrapped ;) well ? They were too good and more expensive than what the likes of IBM,..., thought the consumer(you and me) would pay for.

 And that my friends,  in a NUTSHELL, is how and why we got stuck for the last 31 years with this x86 architecture.

 Sorry, and I ain't NO amd fanboy, but thank GOD for AMD's obvious past competitive innovations pushing Intel's envelopes, and visa-verca.  Otherwise, we would still all be running an (OC'd) 1.9 GHz P3 today, except that it would cost over $1900/chip.

:)

Cheers.