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No doubt the 286 architecture peaked back then. I guess his assumption of no backward compatibility is where it went wrong. Intel kept piling on new architectur
by exporectomy 5y ago
No doubt the 286 architecture peaked back then. I guess his assumption of no backward compatibility is where it went wrong. Intel kept piling on new architectures while keeping the old for application compatibility.
- qsort 5y agoThis is exactly it. Also the reason why IA64 failed, and we're using amd's x86-64 instead. In more recent times, the argument is less relevant because the compatibility layer is software-side, see the mostly painless x86 -> ARM transition by Apple.