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> that Intel chip that gets a bad rap

I wonder why.

<<<According to the New York Times, "the i432 ran 5 to 10 times more slowly than its competitor, the Motorola 68000" >>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432#The_project%27s...

From memory a quote from a user of it, something like: "on a good day it walked, on a bad day it crawled"

IIRC every main memory access needed 3 pointer derefs and 3 array lookups (from memory).




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