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In the 1995 movie 'Hackers' there was a scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9yCWv7NS0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9yCWv7NS0) where they're talking ab

In the 1995 movie 'Hackers' there was a scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9yCWv7NS0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9yCWv7NS0) where they're talking about RISC being the future. The hype about RISC was strong at the time but a few years later that scene seemed dated. Now here we are in 2020 and ARM keeps taking over more and more of the world.

csdreamer7 7y ago
That is because they were on the PowerPC RISC platform. They moved to x86 when they realized Intel's lead had grown too much to ignore.
- TimTheTinker 7y ago
  It’s also interesting to note that Intel’s modern processor API is a CISC abstraction over underlying RISC microcode. So RISC really did win.
- alwillis 7y ago
  Motorola and IBM said they could keep pace with Intel but hit all kinds of technical challenges. The last Power Mac G5 with its 9 fans plus water cooling just to get two dual-core PowerPC G5 processors to run reliably was the last straw: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_quad_2.5.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powerma...
Symmetry 7y ago
Well they did end up changing everything. They just did it by hybridizing with CISC to produce the world we live in.