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Re:Apple Silicon and losing our legacy by mook on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:08PM (#25157218)
Didn't Intel try to do that with Itanium?

… Yeah that's not really relevant anymore. Turns out a lot of people like their old cruft to keep working.

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Re:Apple Silicon and losing our legacy by lmm on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:27PM (#25157306)
Itanium tried to design the best possible processor for tomorrow's world, when compilers were going to be much smarter than they are now. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
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