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Re:The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU by chrisseaton on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:59AM (#21136491)
> So we would never build a computer because back in 1950 we didn't know how to make compilers

No that's different - the big idea with the Itanium was specifically to shift the major scheduler work to the compiler. We didn't build the first computers with the idea we'd build compilers later.

Re:The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU by notacoward on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:08PM (#21143185)
But we did build an awful lot of RISC machines with exactly that idea. And it worked.