On Tue, 15 May 2001, Mike Hicks wrote: > I've been looking to dump the Intel architecture for a while.. As anyone > who has looked at it will tell you, it's gotten pretty crufty. Since I > run Linux and only Linux, this isn't terribly hard to do, either. The way I hear it, from those who know better than I, the Alpha *is* a real architecture, the x86 family isn't; it's a kludge to keep backward compatibility with the 8086. -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous