On: "It’s done in hardware so it’s cheap"

[dkersten]

And AMD forced Intels hand on the move to 64bit.

[rbanffy → dkersten]

Intel had already moved on. All AMD did was to make Intel put the x86 back into the 64 bit picture.

I'd prefer a clean break.

[dkersten → rbanffy]

The parent of my comment mentioned 80386, so my comment was about x86 and not, for example, Itanium. In the x86 world, AMD forced Intels hand.

And I totally agree - I would also prefer a clean break.

[beagle3 → rbanffy]

I'd also prefer a clean break, something clean like ARM (although it's getting dirtier).

But the Itanium that intel moved on to? That isn't a clean break. It's a mistake. I'm so happy that AMD was able to force them to make something useful instead.