If i had a "different" ISA to market, I'd think the very first priority would be to have excellent free compilers for it, be they FOSS or not. Write our own and give them away if we gotta. Remove every barrier to people using your product that you can.
IBM doesn't think that way. They're probably using "the longhair hippies can't use this hardware" as a selling point.
IBM doesn't think that way. They're probably using "the longhair hippies can't use this hardware" as a selling point.