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I wish a research group would start from scratch and design the best PC and server hardware and software for today's world, not taking any backwards compatibili
by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I wish a research group would start from scratch and design the best PC and server hardware and software for today's world, not taking any backwards compatibility in mind, just pure, new stuff that's designed with all of today's advancements in mind.
- valzam 6y agoIsn't that pretty much what Apple did?
- guidoism 6y agoApple was not starting from scratch, they used NeXT for software and ARM for hardware. Those are both from the 1980s.
- alwillis 6y agoApple was not starting from scratch, they used NeXT for software and ARM for hardware. That got them started but Apple has written a ton of frameworks since 2000 when the first version of MacOS X shipped. The point being made was that Apple didn't attempt to be backwards compatible with classic Mac OS. The Mac didn't try to be backwards compatible with the Apple II that came before it. The iPhone wasn't compatible with any of the phone platforms and standards in 2007.
- marcosdumay 6y agoLike the Mill? There is a huge amount of problems to solve before a new architecture is usable. This may be not viable at all.
- pdimitar 6y agoWhat's a Mill? A supposedly modernized CPU architecture that failed?
- marcosdumay 6y ago> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture It didn't actually fail, at least not yet. But it's not clear it can succeed either.
- mook 6y agoDidn't Intel try to do that with Itanium? … Yeah that's not really relevant anymore. Turns out a lot of people like their old cruft to keep working.
- lmm 6y agoItanium tried to design the best possible processor for tomorrow's world, when compilers were going to be much smarter than they are now. Unfortunately that didn't happen.