Re: Privilege Levels Below User

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:48:14 +0000, mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
wrote:

It seems that in terms of computer architectures, the world is
not going to beat a path to your door even if you invent a
better mousetrap.

And we all know the main reason for that. If you already have a
computer that you have bought software for, when you upgrade your
computer, you want to be able to move all that software over to your
new computer without additional costs or issues.
That means the new computer must have the same ISA and run the same
operating system, or that operating system's fully upwards-compatible
successor.
That means that x86 is king for the foreseeable future.
But _some_ people use Linux, which essentially makes them free to hop
to any ISA for which the Gnu C compiler works.
The other option, of course, is a new niche - and so while the desktop
is Windows on the x86, smartphones are Android on ARM.

John Savard