[GTALUG] example of why RISC was a good idea

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Sun May 22 11:27:06 EDT 2016


On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 04:01:03PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> x86 almost vanquished RISC.  No RISC worksations remain.  On servers,
> RISC has retreated a lot.  SPARC and Power don't seem to be growing.
> But from out in left field, ARM seems to be eating x86's lunch.  ATOM, x86's
> champion, has been cancelled (at least as a brand).

You guys are talking about all the stuffs that failed... mainly because
they priced themselves right out of the market.  RIP.
-- 
William


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