Re:When shall we be free of the X86? (Score 0)

AMD is on the right track and I will tell you why. By supporting 32bit x86 in the Athlong 64 they allow an easy migration to the new 64 bit instruction sets. Then at some point in the future they can start phasing 16 and 32 bit apps out because people will be running on win 64 and It would be more expensive to develop those less efficient apps. It certainly is better then having to force people at some point to just sqitch and incure the cost of new 64 bit software which will be VERY expensive to develop.