Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

Maybe over time x86 will be able to drop most of the legacy ugliness and become more useful. It is already going in the right direction. I'm sure we haven't seen the last of the extensions and evolution.

I agree, there is certainly a lot of room for improvement left
in x86. Keeping making better, more logical, and streamlined
until it looks exactly like Alpha and then there will be virtually
nothing left to do. :-P

However, improvements that ease the plight of x86 compiler
writers and x86 asm programmers polishing this 25+ year old
turd for more performance do not remove one gram of burden
from the multi-ton millstone around the neck of the poor souls
who have to design x86 chips to support *every* layer of x86
accretion all the way down to 16 bit segmented madness and
x87 stack stupidity. In the x86 world baggage is forever.