If the committee had any good taste at all they would have thrown DEC AXP overboard before C++11, which would have cut the majority of the words out of the spec

If the committee had any good taste at all they would have thrown DEC AXP overboard before C++11, which would have cut the majority of the words out of the specification for std::memory_order. It was only the obsolete and quite impossible to program Alpha CPU that requires the ultimate level of complexity.