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They pulled another Microsoft Bob, putting out a product that nobody really needed or expected, that conflicted with development of other similar products, killed it, and just wasted a lot of effort.

ISCA 2010 Goes to France Late last month I had the pleasure of travelling to the beach town of St.

ISCA of course being one of the main annual computer architecture conferences in the world.

It is an incredibly geeky and interesting conference to go to, one I would highly recommend to anyone interested enough in computer architecture details to be, say, reading this blog.

Very rarely do members of the public get the opportunity to meet and chat with some of the very people who have designed the very computer chips that we use every day, and ISCA is one of those times.

A pleasant location such as pre-Olympics Beijing or beautiful St.

How do I even begin to describe how delicious and relatively inexpensive the food in the various St.

Malo eateries was other than to say you just have to go to St.

Be prepared to eat a lot of crepes and galettes, they are delicious I was originally headed to ISCA to present a couple of papers I co-wrote for this years AMAS-BT conference workshop ( ) on the topic of what else, binary translation based emulation.

It was two years ago in Beijing that I presented my Virtualization Without Direct Execution paper at the first AMAS-BT workshop, and expected to be presenting on June 20th.

But unfortunately I didnt make the cut this year, not to mention I showed up on the evening of the 19th expecting the workshop to be on the 20th only to find out it had been rescheduled for earlier on the day of the 19th, oops So I enjoyed ISCA as a mere tourist and soaked up many of the presentations and lectures in addition to all the crepes and galettes.

Following the 2008 conference I did a brief write-up of what I saw in Beijing and what topics were discussed, in Part 20.

I unfortunately did not get a chance to attend the 2009 ISCA conference in Austin due to work and travel conflicts at the time, so going back to ISCA two years later I wondered what new topics would be discussed, what new interesting papers would be presented, and what cool words of advice the guest speakers would have this time around.

A recurring theme of many of the presentations this year was to remind us to look back at computer history; to look back at what has been tried and maybe forgotten in the past before just blindly trudging along into the future.

The first lecture on the morning of Monday June 21 was a keynote by Bill Dally who is currently the Chief Scientist at nVidia and brings many decades of experience from academia and industry.

Use the data from the failures to feed back into the development of the other ideas.

Consider the Microsoft Kin phone, the offshoot of an expensive buyout of a company called Danger two years ago ( ).

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In February 2010 Microsoft announced the upcoming series of new Windows Phone 7.

Makes sense, their Windows Mobile 6 phones have been around for a number of years and grossly in need of an update.

But was it based on Danger technology No, so then in April 2010 out of the blue Microsoft releases the Microsoft Kin phone, not a Windows Phone 7, in fact not a phone anybody expected.

I barely had time to understand what the Kin was and why I needed it before Microsoft pulled the plug on it, citing the need to focus on development of.

Duh One can only imagine the millions of dollars spent buying out Danger and the two years of development that went into the Kin, the millions more in marketing, for a product that ended up being on the market for all of 2 months.

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