Turing Award winner John Hennessy's birthday sparks RISC-era reflections
satnam6502 · x · 2026-09-22
ACM celebrated John Hennessy's birthday, honoring his 2017 Turing Award with David Patterson for pioneering systematic, quantitative computer architecture design — including RISC, which still delivers major efficiency and power gains. Respondent satnam6502 shared that he lost interest in processors during the CISC-to-RISC transition, preferring the NS32000's elegant ISA and moving to FPGAs, and joked about persuading Hennessy to build a CPU for WASM.
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