#cpu architectures

[myzanilred]

Something I haven't considered talking about are logical CPUs/cores. They were a considerable mystery to me for many years, and finding a sufficient explanation of what they actually were, and how they worked, took some time.

It wasn't until I read about how they were handled in the SPARC architecture (I believe in a book on operating system concepts) that I actually started to get a grasp on them.

Not sure whether to cover them in the first article, in a later, more advanced article, or separately, on their own. I'd love to talk about them though.

[myzanilred]

"PowerPC will kill x86."

"Itanium will kill x86."

"RISC-V will kill x86."

"ARM will kill x86."

Where are all my non-x86 desktop motherboards?

Why am I still forced to rely on this bloated, fetal corpse of an architecture?!

They keep saying that the hardware will come. When?! I've been waiting for a decade for affordable, non-x86 hardware that can effectively serve as a general workstation, and it's still not here!

[myzanilred]

Given how open and well-established the SPARC architecture is, you'd think more projects would be reaching for it. Instead it continues to slowly die out, which I find rather sad. It's such an interesting architecture.