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The answer would have likely been SuperH and Transmeta, both way dead. Things change fast.
by kristopolous 6y ago
The answer would have likely been SuperH and Transmeta, both way dead.
Things change fast.
- Decade 6y agoI would not have guessed SuperH, but I did not use Dreamcast or Jornada. 32-bit CPU with 16-bit instructions seems weird. VLIW had a lot of hype. DSPs had already proven it, and Itanium, Transmeta, and various embedded processors were using it. As a mostly Mac-user back then, I liked PowerPC, and POWER3 was leading the way to 64-bit, but I wasn’t expecting PCs to switch to PowerPC. The RISC systems had not all been executed in the face of the not-yet-released threat of Itanium. I was expecting the diversity to continue, for cross-architecture programming to be the rule and not the exception.