Hello there,
It looks like I've made contact now using MT-Newswatcher with sci.electronics.dsign but reckon I still have stuff to learn but probably know enough to try to post for a second time to ask your opinions about this idea. What if Intel's *86 CPU was programmable with respect to being able to add new instructions to the instruction set? Would this represent an upgrade that would advance things to the point where my hoped for severing of the counterproductive embrace Intel and Microsoft are locked in might be able to happen somehow. Am I right in saying that the *86 mp is now well out of date and that all that has happened in the last 25 years is the relentless increase in the CPU's clock speed however wonderful that is? What are the chances though by not being specific about how this might be done to build a CPU and any other parts around it so that like Dupont's policy of building in room for manoeuvre in the inevitable event that like in any system new stuff will pop up that will require space for it's accommodation. I'm also of course thinking about designing an OS with the same built in lateral expandibility. This reminds me very much of why the microprocessor came into being in the first place. I should check out
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