Sujet : Re: is Vax addressing sane today
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 04. Oct 2024, 01:48:43
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On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:57:54 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:
If the RISC companies failed to keep up, they only have themselves to
blame.
That’s all past history, anyway. RISC very much rules today, and it is x86
that is struggling to keep up.
Another issue was the marketing. The RISC companies did not want to
damage their existing high-priced workstation and server business by
providing cheap CPUs for the masses ...
There was one RISC family that did indeed provide cheap CPUs for the
masses, even more so than x86, and that was ARM.
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