[fpc-devel]Re: Latest status

[Florian Klaempfl]

At 22:40 27.11.01 -0500, you wrote:
> > Another thing, regarding Hammer vs. Itanium: The die size of the Hammer
> > CPUs will be much smaller than those of Intel's CPUs. If AMD will
> > really decide to start a price war with Intel, chances are good that
> > AMD will win this fight. Simply because Itanium and its successors will
> > be much more expensive to produce.
>
>The worst thing about current IA64 is the carry-over of legacy support.
>A dual instruction set chip is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard
>of... Okay its not as bad as HCF but it's close. =P DAMN!!!

Sorry, but what is HCF?