she hacked you

Anyone else remember that scene from hackers where they say RISC is the future

My friends and I would laugh at it, because it was so clear at that point x86 was victorious

27 years later, that line is now true! And now all I have is egg on my face

I was so naive, I mean, she's acid burn, who am I?

I'm giving away my atmel chips and obviously switching over to the ARM32 M0+

Not hip? These chips are far more powerful, use less electricity + idle mode. AND are now cheaper

#tech #it #science

Jul 9, 2023 at 6:59pmWeb
Show threadAndreas ✅Jul 9, 2023
@ekis all those Apple Chips, too. It takes some guts to switch Architecture twice within 16 years.
Show threadmxeyJul 9, 2023
@ekis fun fact: they are talking about the P6 chip which is the one where micro-ops were introduced, so the first one which decoded x86 into quasi-RISC
Show threadGen X-WingJul 10, 2023

@mxey @ekis Also the game they played was on an SGI (dev version of Wipeout I believe), ergo MIPS, ergo RISC, also PlayStation :)

Hack the planet!!!

Show threadResunaJul 9, 2023

@ekis No, I don't remember that line 'cos I don't think I ever watched it, but checking the date I was already programming on a pure-64-bit RISC and it was kind of obvious that the layers of stuff you need to keep son-of-8080-plus running well would eventually choke it out.

I'm still bitter that HP killed that particular processor in favor of their intel-poisoned VLIW crap.

Show threadPat ScullionJul 10, 2023
@ekis Celebrating this fact sounds like an excuse to watch Hackers again and I am all for it. 😁 Mess with the best, Die like the rest!
Show threadTimo JJul 10, 2023
@ekis If only there were more cloud computing resources available on the ARM64 platform. Right now, they’re still a novelty rather than mass market instance type and that’s bad for all of us.
Show threadMarc EtienneJul 10, 2023
@ekis it's the secret sauce behind Apple's in-house chips as well. I am still blown away by the performance of the lowly M1 chips.
Show threadLars BrinkhoffJul 10, 2023
@ekis Which ARM64 M0+ is that? I looked around, but didn't find it.