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I don’t doubt the author knows a lot about this, but the case being made constantly has things that even a cursory reading highlights as nonsense. Like RISC requiring a high-level language compiler and operating system, while the dominant “RISC” chip on the planet originally had an operating system written entirely in assembly. And the technical distinction between “real” and “not real CPUs” quietly ignoring the fact that the 80s and 90s were completely dominated by “not real” computers.