-->"leb" == Lawrence E Bakst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  leb> Alpha is gone, Sparc is Sun only, MIPs might survive as an
  leb> embedded architecture. The big 3 going forward are X86, ARM, and
  leb> PPC as someone else mentioned.

MIPS has had somewhat of a resurgence recently, with many domestic
gateway/router/wifi boxes using, eg. Broadcom MIPS32 SoCs running Linux
or VxWorks.

but it's not used as a general-purpose processor any longer.  with
Apple's move to EM64T, you're left with a 1G UltraSPARCiii for $2200, a
2.5G PPC970 for $3000, or a 1G UltraSPARC T1 for $4000.  none of which
look attractive compared with the prices of an x86(-64)




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