That Sun MAJC one was interesting, and takes me back to an article[0] by Hannibal from Ars Technica on IA64 (Itanium) and MAJC[1]. MAJC was only used in a coup

That Sun MAJC one was interesting, and takes me back to an article[0] by Hannibal from Ars Technica on IA64 (Itanium) and MAJC[1]. MAJC was only used in a couple of Sun Microsystems video cards, and design ideas went into the SPARC T series. - Variable Length instruction packets - The functional units/execution units were general, i.e. no specific ones for Floating Point. - The compiler was tied to a particular implementation of a MAJC processor, so Java was to be the language for it - ship app in Java bytecode, compile to implementation with a JVM for the particular chip. [0] https://archive.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/majc/majc-1.html https://archive.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/majc/majc-1.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAJC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAJC