Re: Plan 9 grids with AMD64 CPUs

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> i've got the architecture manuals in front of me, and i don't see it.
> nothing i'd describe as `nice', and that's in 64-bit mode (with prefix
> bytes distributed liberally).  are there two AMD64 architectures and i'm
> looking at the wrong one?

given the constraints it's just not that bad. just try ia64 sometime.

> on the other hand, since it's no better than it was, it's probably easier
> to extend 8[acl] than it might have been if they'd done something ... nice.

not sure.

ron