The public existence of Rust is 13 years, during which computing has not changed that much to be honest. Now compare this to the prehistory that is 1985, when CFront came out, already made for backwards compatibility with C.
The memory model, interrupt model, packetized networking, digital storage, all function more or less identically.
In embedded, I still see Z80s and M68ks like nothing's changed.
I'd love to see more concrete implementations of adiabatic circuits, weird architectures like the mill, integrated FPGAs, etc. HP's The Machine effort was a rare exciting new thing until they walked back all the exciting parts. CXL seems like about the most interesting new thing in a bit.
Meaning that all the machines I've ever cared about have had 8 bit bytes. The TI-99/4A, TRS-80, Commodore 64 and 128, Tandy 1000 8088, Apple ][, Macintosh Classic, etc.
Many were launched in the late 70s. By 1985 we were well into the era of PC compatibles.
My https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000 came out in 1984. And it was a relatively late entry to the market, it was near peak 8088 with what was considered high end graphics and sound for the day, far better than the IBM PC which debuted in 1981 and only lasted until 1987.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit
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