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Intel's LaGrande Technology reminds me of the Intel 432. Some of us with grey hair will remember the 432, Intel's attempt to create an "object oriented" processor that would embed all the great ideas of object oriented (OO) computing in a revolutionary new architecture.

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What killed the 432 was the RISC idea. Not the purist RISC machines of the ultimately minimal instruction set, but the idea underlying RISC, which is that you don't specialize the machine with lots of cool gimmicks for specific applications - instead you make the machine that binds as little knowledge about its applications into hardware, leaving complete flexibility to software.

I have enough grey hair to remember the 432. It was an unmitigated disaster:

Despite these advanced features, the 432 didn't catch on. The main reason was that it was slow, sometimes up to five or ten times slower than a 68000 or Intel's own 80286.