Re: Privilege Levels Below User

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 02:57:46 -0600, John Savard wrote:

But the failure of RISC-B to make x86 obsolete shows that even giving it
away for free is not enough. Because not being able to run your old
Windows programs is the real problem.

You mean RISC-V?

I think it is succeeding in its goals. From what I hear, it’s already
shipping in the billions of units per year, in a similar league to ARM.

Compare this to x86, which at its peak was shipping about 360 million
units per year (a million a day), but is now down to about 280 million,
and continues to stagnate. Sure, there’s a lot more money to be made from
those hundreds of millions of x86 chips than from those billions of RISC-V
and ARM chips.

Moral: the desktop is not the centre of the computing universe. It is only
a small part of it.