It was neat to live through the era where CPUs constantly got faster and they were willing to try such oddball stuff.

For such a long time it became “faster and more cores, don’t be different” and just didn’t seem as interesting.

Apple Silicon had been very interesting to me. I’m really hoping to see a stronger ARM push on Windows, both because I know it can be great and because it’s just interesting. Windows has never had to switch architectures (for consumers) or support two at once for any reasonable population.

Also, whatever happened to mill? We used to get posts about them all the time.

And I wonder what would have happened to Power if they had the 3rd party fabs that exist today instead of being stuck with what IBM could make in-house.