[GTALUG] example of why RISC was a good idea

[Alvin Starr]

On 05/22/2016 11:27 AM, William Park wrote:
> 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.
Few of these technologies failed because of price.
One thing that will put several nails in the coffin of a processor is
not having a windows port.
Another is having a proprietary OS.



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