I'm no fan of x86, but the inside of these chips have kept pretty up-to-date. Also, they're pretty fast. PCI & the Pentium's APIC took out a lot of the old kl

I'm no fan of x86, but the inside of these chips have kept pretty up-to-date. Also, they're pretty fast. PCI & the Pentium's APIC took out a lot of the old kludgey stuff of the old PC arch. IMHO, a removal of the older 16bit instruction set & 4 more registers would make many of us happy. Maybe Open Firmware :-) Disclaimer: I use a Sun x86 box on my desk, and a mac laptop. So while I'm in x86-land, it's a distinctly different province than many others. Anything else?