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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by userbinator on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:44PM (#35414336)
There were some attempts in the Java direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor

But ultimately it seems that the idea of language-specific CPUs just didn't survive because people want to be able to use any programming language with them.

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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by panick21_ on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:02PM (#35415169)
The Java-Everything trip Sun went on was truly horrific. Both in terms of technical and business results.
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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by lproven on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:16AM (#35420608)
> people want to be able to use any programming language with them.

And then, except for a few rounding errors, they actually use C.

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