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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

rip itanium

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

echinopsis posted:

can someone give me an explain like i'm 5

like uranium was a whole new instruction set not backwards compatible with x86 but amd just added into x86 to make x64?

itanium dumped the x86 baggage in the jump to 64-bit which is good because x86 is terrible but bad because it breaks compat with trash old software

amd tacked on new 64-bit hotness to the x86 crapfest which is bad because it leaves x86 garbage littered around but good because you can still run trash old software

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

ate all the Oreos posted:

i would really like to see a new big deal processor architecture that's not ARM or x86 some time just because i think it would be real interesting and the way computers do things has changed a bunch since the loving 1980's but that's never gonna happen lol

or at least in the future when there's quantum neural cyberbrains or w/e they'll still have an x86 compatibility mode for running your company's lovely Java 5 accounting software

https://riscv.org/

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

that isnt modern tho

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

riscv did it/ is doing it like it or not

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

what the heck is software on chip

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