Does anyone wants to read a book "Sum of Technologies" by Stanislaw Lem? It was written in 1967 and still remains one of the best weighted science prognosis books in existance. It's even worth to learn Polish (or Ukrainian or Russian) language and to read this book in a "close to original" version.
It is not very cheap in terms of the effort invested, however chips are cheap because of the unprecedented market penetration.
No one can really estimate the loss gained from inefficiency.
It could be much better to take an advanced RISC core (like PPC) and add an additional (legacy) instruction decode unit to it (anyway, x86 does instruction recoding internally). Simply adding stupid extensions to the old instruction set is not the best policy for anybody.
Is not this terrible that 30 years old, not very good architecture now gained a pass into the 21'st century? Was it not enough to extend the 8085 first to 8086, than to 80286, than to 80386 and now to x86-64? When will this end?
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Does anyone wants to read a book "Sum of Technologies" by Stanislaw Lem? It was written in 1967 and still remains one of the best weighted science prognosis books in existance. It's even worth to learn Polish (or Ukrainian or Russian) language and to read this book in a "close to original" version.
It is not very cheap in terms of the effort invested, however chips are cheap because of the unprecedented market penetration. No one can really estimate the loss gained from inefficiency.
It could be much better to take an advanced RISC core (like PPC) and add an additional (legacy) instruction decode unit to it (anyway, x86 does instruction recoding internally). Simply adding stupid extensions to the old instruction set is not the best policy for anybody.
Is not this terrible that 30 years old, not very good architecture now gained a pass into the 21'st century? Was it not enough to extend the 8085 first to 8086, than to 80286, than to 80386 and now to x86-64? When will this end?