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> They're hardly modern CPUs They're annoying to program but why aren't they modern? You're just redefining terms to try to win an argument. They were intentio
by psykotic 15y ago
> They're hardly modern CPUs
They're annoying to program but why aren't they modern? You're just redefining terms to try to win an argument. They were intentionally scraped down to lower power consumption and manufacturing costs. That doesn't make them not modern.
- maximilianburke 15y agoBoth the Cell and the Xenon are around 7 years old now and the POWER4-based PowerPC 970, their direct ancestor, is over 9 years old. They're not ancient in the sense of a Z80 being ancient but since the PPC970's inception IBM has itself iterated the Power architecture 3 more times (the current generation is POWER7), not to mention the strides that AMD and Intel have both made in processor architectures since that time.