As a followup to discussions on this thread about hardware architectures, some of you may be interested in this new letter published today: Letters to the editor: Hennessy and Patterson on the roots of RISC Comm. ACM 61(10) 6 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1145/3273019 http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3280000/3273019/p6-friedman.pdf The short two-paragraph letter is from Fred Brooks, noted computer architect, author, and computer scientist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------