Pour one out for blind faith in Transmeta (which Linus also was involved with) Crusoe-like VLIW, complicated compilers, and Rolls-Royce grand designs with almos

Pour one out for blind faith in Transmeta (which Linus also was involved with) Crusoe-like VLIW, complicated compilers, and Rolls-Royce grand designs with almost 500 registers. Enterprise will buy anything if it's expensive enough, right? Perhaps VLIW should've been proven workable and advantageous with realistic modeling first before betting billions in development.