There are so many sins that have been committed in the name of progress.
Most of the early Windows games won’t even run anymore. There’s been more lost than we can reasonably understand.
My journey took me through to Windows 2000 pro (as opposed to server) for a while there. I eventually moved over to XP, then Vista, then 7.
I was one of the first people I knew of that ran Vista 64 bit. Most didn’t have the hardware for it, but the core 2 duo in my mobile computer was capable, so I jumped ship as soon as I could.
I’m both unsurprised and disappointed that itanium, Intel’s first attempt at 64 bit CPUs, failed. Starting new with an instruction set that was built from the ground up for modern applications was both very ambitious and presented a fairly unique opportunity for the industry, but they just couldn’t move enough units, and AMD saw the writing on the wall, and created the 64 bit extension for the x86 instruction set.
Oh well. Another opportunity lost.
We have another one with the whole ARM processor race that Apple kicked off with the M1.
I’m only sad that it went to arm and not RISC V.
That would have been quite the change.
Oh well. Maybe RISC V will see another opportunity soon, since NASA commissioned a new generation of radiation hardened processors for spaceflight computers, and they’re RISC V… Who knows.
There are so many sins that have been committed in the name of progress.
Most of the early Windows games won’t even run anymore. There’s been more lost than we can reasonably understand.
My journey took me through to Windows 2000 pro (as opposed to server) for a while there. I eventually moved over to XP, then Vista, then 7.
I was one of the first people I knew of that ran Vista 64 bit. Most didn’t have the hardware for it, but the core 2 duo in my mobile computer was capable, so I jumped ship as soon as I could.
I’m both unsurprised and disappointed that itanium, Intel’s first attempt at 64 bit CPUs, failed. Starting new with an instruction set that was built from the ground up for modern applications was both very ambitious and presented a fairly unique opportunity for the industry, but they just couldn’t move enough units, and AMD saw the writing on the wall, and created the 64 bit extension for the x86 instruction set.
Oh well. Another opportunity lost.
We have another one with the whole ARM processor race that Apple kicked off with the M1. I’m only sad that it went to arm and not RISC V. That would have been quite the change.
Oh well. Maybe RISC V will see another opportunity soon, since NASA commissioned a new generation of radiation hardened processors for spaceflight computers, and they’re RISC V… Who knows.
I’m off on a tangent. Weeeee