Thank you for writing this. I was going to cover quite a lot of these points and you have done it so very succinctly.
It may be obvious, but I think it bears repeating. This blog entry should not reflect badly on Raymond C as he was reporting on the architecture at this time.
The 2022 follow-up also said "And by x86 I mean specifically x86-32." Also, I don't he was on the AMD64 team yet at that time (still Itanium) so probably that is something.
It may be obvious, but I think it bears repeating. This blog entry should not reflect badly on Raymond C as he was reporting on the architecture at this time.