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Itanium is 2000s. RISC-V is 2010s. Apple could make a great leap forward by adopting the Mill, an ISA so novel that it hasn't even been released yet!
by xenophonf 6y ago
Itanium is 2000s. RISC-V is 2010s.
Apple could make a great leap forward by adopting the Mill, an ISA so novel that it hasn't even been released yet!
- fnordsensei 6y agoThe Mill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture
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- icedchai 6y agoToo bad Alpha died. Those machines were like lightning (for the 90's, anyway.)
- messe 6y agoIIRC even Windows NT could run on Alpha. I wonder if computing would've been different had we gotten a modern 64-bit architecture with very little legacy become commonplace in the 90s. Makes me think of the Tanenbaum quote from 1992: "Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5".
- icedchai 6y agoYes, Digital Unix, OpenVMS, and Windows NT all ran. You could also run Linux and FreeBSD. I worked at a DEC shop for a while in the late 90's. Alphas were speed demons. This was right before Compaq bought DEC. After that, I think things started going down hill...
- jsjohnst 6y agoThe lead designer of one of the Alpha chips founded PA Semi (which is the company that Apple acquired to start designing their own chips).