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This statement is pure FUD. There were no meaningful quality issues and the situation is exactly the same for all alternative implementations of the same ISA.

This statement is pure FUD. There were no meaningful quality issues and the situation is exactly the same for all alternative implementations of the same ISA. You could make the same argument to say that AMD or even a new Intel microarchitecture is incompatible as doesn't have the exact same runtime behavior (eg. shifters on the P4). The only relevant metric: does it run the applications that customers use. The Crusoe/Efficeon issues were performance related.

dvdkhlng 6y ago
Just as a single data-point: I still had an old Crusoe-based TC-1000 [1] convertible lying around, that must be > 15 years old by now. About two years back I gave it a new hard-disk (some PATA to flash adapter), replaced the battery, upgraded to 768 MB RAM and installed a Devuan i386 OS on it (a Debian derivative). Even was able to make the pen work again (that needed some X-server source code hacks). The computer is somewhat sluggish with huge software (like Firefox) and especially software that does JIT-compilation, maybe due to limited size of the "code-morphing" cache. For simple java programs the only way to make them start up timely was to fully disable the JIT-compiler. But other than that it's a usable x86 machine (and all other laptops I know that are of similar age eventually failed to boot much earlier). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_TC1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_TC1000