Re: is Vax addressing sane today

On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:26:25 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:

In any case, the performance advantage of the RISCs vanished during the
1990s ...

Only for as long as Intel could afford to spend 10× as much on developing
each chip generation as the RISC vendors could. It could because it could
reap 10× the profits in return, but it can’t any more. Which is why you
see ARM coming to the fore, and RISC-V appearing as the upstart
challenger.

It’s a whole new ballgame now, and x86 is starting to look a little long
in the tooth. Which is why even Microsoft recognizes it needs to spread
its eggs outside that one basket, with its ongoing attempts to promote
Windows on ARM (without much success, so far).

... the RISCs never had wide ISV support, and so WNT on RISCs
flopped.

As I said above, RISC is still around and dominating the computing world.
They’re not running Windows, because it was Windows that could not adapt
well to them. Instead, they are running Linux.