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mghackerladyyesterday at 11:30 PM1 replyview on HN

Powers not dead yet! IBM is still clinging to it and I can't blame them, it's a pretty good ISA


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FlowingRiveryesterday at 11:47 PM

Yep, I have said it for a good 20 years now.

POWER/PowerPC is what happens when you take a brilliant design to execute it poorly. x86 is when you take a poor design and execute is brilliantly.

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