Yes, you could turn it off every context switch.

I'm sure the T&C say something like "you're going to pay us money, and we reserve the right to give you something for it, or maybe nothing, and you should thank us for the privilege".

Really? Didn't China pirate the entire ARM China company and start spamming cores like Star1

Also load/store backwards, but no reverse the register instructions

WinCE too

we've also got 50 years of baseline tech improvement to try out.

In the 60s we weren't going to land in the darkness because we couldn't see to land.

But the shadows are probably where the water might be, and that's where we're going next!

Hey now, we had space stations with cannons in what, the 70s?

Some systems are anycast and available in many datacenters for bandwidth cost reasons. Netflix used to deploy content caches in ISP edges.

But any single central point of failure might break them. Things like, is this account paid? Dunno!

Netflix and Youtube both still use caches in ISP edges. The internet would melt without them.

Kansas City Standard was delivered on cheap records through the mail

The party who controls all three branches of federal government?