Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Concertina II Instead Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:21:05 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: <868qbp61su.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <10p75jk$1dmen$1@dont-email.me> <10pchut$39t1v$2@dont-email.me> <10pctv6$32qbl$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10pd0tk$3f5fk$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d8ad6cc581418585937912c9311862c5"; logging-data="3810187"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+jqqs+vwBu11wJHQMdN6M1kBeJrAh7+nk=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5qPQ5z+oxGyntrXTcQtNFUfaeYs= sha1:sO3R0RBT4pNHYGOimcac2Xs69Ms= Xref: csiph.com comp.arch:115411 Stephen Fuld writes: [...] > And in that time period, backward compatibility was becoming > important, so new architectures had that hurdle to overcome. When I first saw this I misread it as hackward compatibility. :)