Re: Stanford MIPS ???
>It blows the 386 out of the water
For certain values of "blows out of the water". But the points I was trying to make are repeated in the article you reference:
>RISC processors couldn’t tap into the huge, non-portable software installed base except under emulation
That is, they ran slower.
>This allowed the Pentium Pro to reach a clock speed of 200 MHz
The simpified die design did not, at expected, allow the MIPS machine to clock faster than CISC machines
>The Pentium Pro combined an innovative new out-of-order execution superscalar x86 microprocessor
Those were the compiler ideas which were the other half of how RISC computers started out faster than existing CISC computers.
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