kelsey hudson wrote:
gossamer axe wrote:
yeah, so just like the number of GPRs in the x86 architecture, it's CPU
interrupt architecture sucks just as bad, being that there were really
only 3-4 spare IRQs for hardware that wasn't already in the box. How
this architecture caught on I'll never know.
Three letters ...
I ... B ... M
Nobody bought an "Intel". They bought an "IBM".
And, in fact, they didn't even really buy an "IBM".
They bought "that thing that runs Lotus and WordPerfect".
x86 was simply along for the ride.
And, to be fair, the x86 isn't that bad an architecture when you have to
draw the schematics by hand and cut rubylith with an xacto knife.
We judge the x86 architecture by what we know now; not by what they knew
then.
-a
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