Post by thread:[OT] Intel Chip Designs, was Getting old screen sa

>Intels chip designs would be much better if they dropped backwards >compatibility with legacy x86 architecture and made a new architecture >from scratch. They actually did this, and called it itanium. Sadly, it >didn't catch on. That may be a later attempt, but they did an attempt with a version of the 386 chip as well. Cannot remember the number that they gave it, but it did not have the 16 bit modes in it at all, started straight into 32 bit mode, but was otherwise identical to the i386 chip. Alas it also did not catch on ...