argv minus one<p>In the 1980s, a whole lot of computer and CPU vendors introduced shiny new <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISC</span></a> processors, like ARM, MIPS, POWER, and SPARC. Many of these were quite successful in the video game, workstation, and supercomputer markets.</p><p>Except Intel, whose old-fashioned x86 machines somehow ended up outperforming almost all of the RISCs.</p><p>How did that happen?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>