Post from 2025-05-28 18:41:44
"I miss the insanity of 80s processor design.
Intel’s iAPX 432 was a 'micromainframe'.
It had no general purpose registers, supported object orientation *directly*, and performed garbage collection on-chip." - Also by
@
lauriewired
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1925982635903398106.html
The i960 post by
@
kenshirriff
is also worth checking out if you are interested in revolutionary architectures that just didn't really make it (while some concepts are still working in
#IBMi
and
#CHERI
I guess?):
https://www.righto.com/2023/07/the-complex-history-of-intel-i960-risc.html
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