You don’t have to buy this new system. You may continue buying whatever hardware you already buy, effective immediately, indefinitely. I didn’t realize my Hacker News comments had power to prevent folks from doing that to begin with!

> Brandishing "diversity" as the epitome of progress is close to nonsensical.

Man, it really sounds like you have some things you might want to talk about with a therapist. I haven’t even used the word “diversity” that I can find.

All I’m suggesting is maybe an instruction set design that has cruft going back decades might actually not be the global maximum of ISA design, and that there might be real gains by trying to apply modern high-performance processor engineering to a different application ISA.

That’s it. The market gets to decide if another ISA will hit critical mass. This is not especially likely for the most part, but I definitely support the research.

I’m sorry for all of the snark but really, I am blown away at some of the responses this has garnered. I hope you all realize that this machines existence is not a threat to basically anyone.