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Alan Kay in his famous OOPSLA talk mentions how the architecture itself leads to these language choices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY https://ww
by gnipgnip 10y ago
Alan Kay in his famous OOPSLA talk mentions how the architecture itself leads to these language choices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
He mentions how Xerox PARC machines with tagged architectures from the 80s were only 1/50 the speed of the x86 systems in '97. This, in contrast to the 50000x increase in computing power over the same time frame.
- adamnemecek 10y agoCan anyone recommend any resources on older architectures? Alan also talks about the Burroughs CPUs but idk how one would go about learning about those these days.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIm at work but these two should be a nice start: https://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burroughs%20B-5000.htm https://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Bur... http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/ http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/ Bitsavers and Wikipedia are good resources. The summaries of most on Wikipedia are accurate enough with references to get more authorative information on. I found a lot of it that way.