Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > 68k -> POWER > > > POWER -> Intel > > > Intel -> ARM Ah, you've made progress! > the 6502 doesn't count Alan, one of the keenest reasons ARM is dominating NOW, is that in the early 1990 one person, helped many fledling embedded linux hacks get embedded linux running on many different flavors of ARM processors. RUSSELL is KING, and imho is the predominant reason today, a decade later, that ARM dominates the embedded space. Just look at the vintage embedded linux ports to hundreds of boards that mostly impoverished little companies built and ONE MAN stood in the gap for them all to realize their dreams: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ Intel and the rest wanted everyone to purchase expensive dev board, licensed embedded RTOSes, and binaries for most add on hardware. A prospect that precluded the little companies from fair competition. RUSSELL KING should be wealthy and on the Board of directors for ARM ltd. for his unselfish and heroic efforts! More than anyone else, he made arm-linux a doable for thousands of companies back when the embedded world did not think much of linux nor embedded linux. (I know I hacked on a few of those old projects).... Intel has nothing but a bunch of blood sucking lawyers and assholes that think they are better than the rest of us; and they shall fall! >From the Bible: "You reap what you sow"... My most sincerest hope is that we take the embedded gentoo efforts from the the embedded gentoo handbook, and integrate them into the regular Gentoo handbook. The distro that does this will be king of the distros! http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ peace, James
