Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Oct 2006 20:55 UTC
"Nvidia is making a CPU, but the only questions are what kind of CPU, and how the heck is it going to do it. Making an X86 based CPU is not a trivial venture, and there are enough problems to make even a company with the engineering bandwidth of Nvidia cringe. Those problems are mainly called lawyers."
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2005-11-16
>So let's get rid of Windows first.
Highly unlikely i.e. refer to ReactOS (FOSS Windows NT 5.x clone).
>Then CPU designers will get the freedom they need to
>design without marketeers shouting: "will it be x86
>compatible... will it be x86 compatible...".
Itanium(aka "Itanic") has IA-32 compatibility.