x86 came out 1978,
21 years after, x64 came out 1999
we are three years overdue for a shift, and I don’t mean to arm. Is there just no point to it? 128 bit computing is a thing and has been in the talks since 1976 according to Wikipedia. Why hasn’t it been widely adopted by now?
More importantly, why hasn’t anyone invented a 3-way flip-flopper/capacitor/resistor/transistor so that we can finally use a trinary system instead of the outdated binary system?
You could store like ~85 different pieces of information into 4 bits, rather than a measly 15 different pieces of information in 4 bits of binary.