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To be fair, the x86 is a completely shit architecture, no matter how many billions of dollars and billions of transistors you throw at it. There are clearly so
by johnklos 5y ago
To be fair, the x86 is a completely shit architecture, no matter how many billions of dollars and billions of transistors you throw at it. There are clearly so many things that x86 does that no sane person would do if making a clean design today.
- baggy_trough 5y agoWouldn't it be fair for Intel to feel bad about that?
- creato 5y ago"There are clearly so many things that x86 does that no sane person would do if making a clean design today" and "x86 has been a continuously supported backwards compatible architecture for 35 years, and enabled the existence of most computers for most of those 35 years" are basically saying the same thing. Depending on which way you look at it, Intel can feel bad about it, or feel good about it.
- rbanffy 5y agoBackwards compatibility was more important when everyone ran Windows. We aren’t there anymore.
- arvinsim 5y agoI mean, we can say that about any legacy software system, right?