[Discussion] IBM Stretch Computer

[Thomas Clayton]

Dear Bill:

Nice to see that I'm _NOT_ the _only_ one who feels there is a need for foundational (fundamental) rebuilding. The Itel translatin to RISC for x86 and then layering x64 on top of that and  ... well you know.

There had been some hope when PowerPC was arriving but ... .


Tom C

--- On Sun, 1/24/10, Bill Nicholls <billn at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> From: Bill Nicholls <billn at fairpoint.net>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] IBM Stretch Computer
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 11:36 PM
> 
>  
> And Intel has topped them all with the x86 abortion and
> extensions.
> It's time for a reformation!
> 
> 
> 
> BillN
> 
>   On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:27:34 -0800 (PST) Thomas
> Clayton wrote:
>   
>     
> "It is immensely ingeious, immensely complicated, and
> extremely effective but somehow at the same time crude,
> wasteful,
> and inelegant, and one feels that there must be a better
> way
> of doing things."
> --- C. Strachey (speaking not of Windows
> but of the IBM Stretch computer in 1962)
>