posted 2 years ago
"Architecture" is a pretty broad term. There's RISC and CISC, there's Turing Machines, there's Quantum Computing. And old-time Analog computing. I have a wonderful old book on Content-Addressable Array Processing, where you set up criteria and the operations to be applied are done in parallel to all memory cells that qualify. Then again, at the Computer Science level, traditional electronics are just one small corner. We have fluidic and optical computing. Slide rules are technically computers as are Napier's Bones. I had a mechanical binary computer. Go further afield and you even have human-based architectures like Dune Mentats (Uni-processor) and the crowds of alien "computers" (multi-processing) featured in Cixin Liu's "Three-Body Problem".
So we'd need a little more context to even begin.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.