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NewsHP breaks its own printers (again) with firmware update Pin
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NewsIntel proposes X86-S instruction set with partial removal of 16 and 32bit features Pin
Dan Neely23-May-23 1:44
Dan Neely23-May-23 1:44 
Among Intel's expressed benefits for a 64-bit mode-only architecture is removing ring 1 and 2, dropping 16-bit addressing support, eliminating ring 3 I/O port accesses and the string port I/O, simplified segmentation model, and removing some unused operating system bits.

Under this proposal, those wanting to run legacy 32-bit operating systems would have to rely on virtualization. To further clarify, 32-bit x86 user-space software would continue to work on modern 64-bit operating systems with X86-S.


The biggest question I have at this point is how much die area and microcode space would this actually save.
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