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> It'd be interesting to see what interface we'd choose today with multiple decades of hardware and software development A worse one? Not a couple days ago the
by AshamedCaptain 4y ago
> It'd be interesting to see what interface we'd choose today with multiple decades of hardware and software development
A worse one? Not a couple days ago there were a couple stories about Itanium here on HN (a designed-from-scratch ISA that turned out to be practically worse than the much more ad-hoc x86_64). Even e.g. RISC-V (which is not entirely free of legacy) is practically 1:1 with ancient ISAs like ARM.
- astrange 4y agoARM is an evolving ISA. AArch64 is quite different from ARMv7, and has nicer security features than the other leading brand, who can barely manage to ship SGX.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoIt's not like x86 or RISC-V are not "evolving ISAs" either. And personally I would classify SGX and other "security" features as misfeatures, but that's for another day...