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Well, okay, but it seems more significant to me that the ARM1 did not exist in the late seventies - which would have been really great - because the field advan
by justin66 6y ago
Well, okay, but it seems more significant to me that the ARM1 did not exist in the late seventies - which would have been really great - because the field advanced. The original comment struck me as a bit strange because it implies that Intel just made a single bad call, or something.
- klelatti 6y agoVery much agree - I was (not very effectively) trying to make the point that its not just about transistor counts and that what you do with those transistors - the field advancing as you say - matters a lot too. Credit to Hennessey etc who developed the original RISC concept. I do think though that if you look back at the history Intel put huge resources into the iAPX432 which was hugely overambitious and they had to rely on the fallback of the 8086/88. There is probably a reasonable case that if they had hadn't split their resources we might have had something better than the 8086.