Re: The joy of FORTRAN

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

Intel's real 32 bit processor was supposed to be the iAPX 432, with the
x86 a rework of the 8080 as a stop gap.  O think I have the preliminary
data sheets around here someplace. They threw money at it for about 10
years and failed.

somewhat like IBM's failed "Future System" effort (replacing all 370s)
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project

except FS was enormous amounts of microcode. i432 gave talk at early 80s
ACM SIGOPS at asilomar ... one of their issues was really complex stuff
in silicon and nearly every fix required new silicon.

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