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.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 hurt development or performance these days per se, but are definitely not fun to work with either.Something like this is the only thing that would save the x86 architecture before ARM inevitably took over.