Well, given every A-series chip has a lot of special purpose transistors (GPU, encoding, decoding, etc.) and I notice the bitcoin crowd has a lot of love for special purpose transistors, I don't think the lessons of RISC are that cut and dried. I would imagine a dynamic dispatch instruction would be an interesting addition that would require some thinking on the CPU and MMU.
Pulling out the iAPX 432 (or even the Itanium for anything VLIW) is a nice historical note, but they are single projects that had more than technical problems. Not thinking about all the possible solutions when a company controls not only the software but the hardware at such a low level would be sad.
Pulling out the iAPX 432 (or even the Itanium for anything VLIW) is a nice historical note, but they are single projects that had more than technical problems. Not thinking about all the possible solutions when a company controls not only the software but the hardware at such a low level would be sad.