Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture
Fabulous. Might actually make me like Intel again. The legacy stuff is a nightmare, their segmented memory nonsense was also a waste of development time and I'm glad to see them finally acknowledge it.<p>I wonder how this will affect quirks such as A20, IRQ remapping, etc. All oversights and mistakes made by Intel over the years - none of which really <i>hurt</i> development or performance these days per se, but are definitely not <i>fun</i> to work with either.<p>Something like this is the only thing that would save the x86 architecture before ARM inevitably took over.