Intel (was Re:GUI)

[Henry Spencer]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, William Park wrote:
> It's quite amusing to see all these cheap shots directed at Microsoft,
> while leaving the hardware players (ie. Intel, IBM) alone.  Whether it's
> OS/2, Windows, DOS, or Linux, they're all running on Intel CPU.

Speak for yourself.  Here they're running on AMD CPUs, plus a few other
flavors.  (There are two or three Intel CPUs around, but they're all in
machines that I got secondhand at bargain prices, and hence wasn't choosy
about.)

You do realize, I trust, that it was the arrival of serious competition
from AMD that made the growth of x86 CPU speeds really go berserk about
five years ago?  If you plot MHz vs. time, the sharp upward turn in the
curve is quite conspicuous.  It didn't happen out of the goodness of
Intel's heart.

And if it happens that you don't like x86 machines at all, for which you
can hardly be blamed :-), Linux runs on several other CPU architectures,
although they tend to lag behind somewhat on performance and cost, and
hence seldom get much publicity.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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