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Zorin =^o.o^=

@kenshirriff The fact that a design decision in the 1970s led to an architecture trait that has endured for over 50 years now is pretty amazing.

12 Aug 2023 at 16:47 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tiggi.es
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Ken Shirriff

@zorinlynx The IBM System/360 architecture from 1964 is similarly amazing, since IBM's mainframes are still compatible with it.

13 Aug 2023 at 6:07 | Open on oldbytes.space
mytwobits01

@kenshirriff @zorinlynx
Fascinating.
I imagine there was a mixture of "we thought it was a great design feature and had no reason to know it would turn out to be so troublesome" and "it's a great design feature because there was so little prior art constraining us and the possibilities were wide open".

30 Aug 2023 at 8:12 | Open on freeradical.zone
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