> If there's anything I'd consider "ugly", it'd be what AMD did to it with their 64-bit extensions. Ugly, maybe. But hella clever given how much money HP+Intel

> If there's anything I'd consider "ugly", it'd be what AMD did to it with their 64-bit extensions. Ugly, maybe. But hella clever given how much money HP+Intel spent on transitioning Itanium when a simple escape code would do. The only real ugliness I can't stomach is the x87/MMX stack nonsense. I have it on good authority that the guy tasked with implementing it at Transmeta was driven into depression.