I fully agree, but I was asked for why I don't like the x86 architecture, so I gave an answer. Current x86 CPUs are pretty awesome when it comes down to it. th

I fully agree, but I was asked for why I don't like the x86 architecture, so I gave an answer. Current x86 CPUs are pretty awesome when it comes down to it. the ISA is quite hairy, and that makes writing tools for them quite a bit more painful than for, eg, mips, but because compilers are good you don't feel the pain from using x86 anymore, so nobody cares -- or should care -- that they're actually using x86.