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Intel tried this in the early 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432

• adrianratnapala 10y ago
  Wow, the iAPX 432 sounds really cool. It contains a lot of ideas that I wish had taken off. Pity it failed. That failure might prove that those ideas were bad. But I think it just proves that MS-DOS compatibility is really, really important. Weep for humanity.
  • pjmlp 10y ago
    I always see those failures more as political than technical. How mankind would be if there weren't a few lunatics that kept on trying to fly and fail? Just to cite one example from many.
    • awt 10y ago
      You are so right. One cannot succeed in technology outside of politics.
• awt 10y ago
  And SMBX.