I consider the Pentium Pro architecture - which still persists (in updated form) in the newer Centrino Pentium-M - to be the greatest processor design in the industry's history!
Perhaps you should try to understand the difference between
architecture and implementation. There have been many really
technically outstanding and ingenius implementations of the
x86 ISA but the ISA still sucks dead rhinos.
BTW, do you think standards like NTSC-525 and 12 Volt auto
power are standards because they are objectively better than
all the alternatives? They are standards because they are too
entrenched to replace with better, more modern replacements
except gradually over decades. Same for x86.
Think of it: This is the architecture that buried Alpha, mips, 68000, Vax, every mainframe design and drove HP to cooperate with Intel in designing a replacement for HP-Parc.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
IPF buried Alpha, MIPS is still going strong in the embedded
control market (IPF killed it for servers etc), the 68k and
VAX were buried by RISCs (primarily SPARC), the S/390 and
z-series mainframes are still going strong, and x86 had
nothing to do with why HP teamed up with Intel (HP didn't
want to fab its own chips beyond 0.5 um).
it is also easy to manufacture and way more reliable than competing products - hardware failures are almost unknown!
Oh man, now I know you are trolling...
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