From: Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: [DNG] When 128?
>From what I learned and read over the years, just about any other CPU
architecture other than than x86 is both conceptually and technically
more sound than x86.
I started with C-64 (6510) and Amiga (68000 up to 68060, then PowerPC)
computers. All three have a quite clean and simple machine code from
what I can tell. You could even see it in assembly listings. Granted
6510 is quite limited with amount of registers, but simple and clean it
is. Also regarding software: AmigaOS was so beyond MS-DOS and early
Windows stuff that was available on IBM-PC compatibles that I could
start with a long, long list about what was better. Just about
everything like true multi tasking, a hard disk partitioning scheme that
actually made some sense instead of the MBR crap, multimedia before the
word for it was born… you name it.
For whatever reason one of the CPU worst architectures and operating
systems became standard.
<snip>
And of course I know: I can always choose to do something about it. For
now I have other priorities, so I just stick with the hardware I
currently use.
Thanks,
--
Martin
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The reason it became standard is that when IBM decided to get into the
PCbusiness, they only used parts that were "Qualified" through their Parts
Qualification Labwhich guaranteed that they would all play together nicely.
They made a choice to make it all
'Open Source'. They published the diagrams of all the pieces, and they
published the operating system. The world quickly picked that up and
re-packaged everything and
began to compete with Big Blue without having to do any of the hard work.
Thus it became a standard fairly quickly. Its success, I think, is spelled
'Documentation'.
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