On 7/6/09 2:52 AM, PeterH at <peterh5...@rattlebrain.com> wrote: > On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:27 PM, MaGioZal wrote: > >> The RISC had a lot of promises, but many times hadn't delivered them. > > It's not the processor, it's the implementation. > > IBM is making huge quantities of PPC RISCs. > > Sun is still making its RISCs. > > Intel's CISCs are doing well.
Well, maybe I should write "Apple made a lot of promises about the RISC, but didn't delivered many of them". ;-) I remember back in the 90's that in the Spindler era the CISC was accused of being "an obsolte chip archicteture which cannot expand well, differently from RISC"... -- MaGioZal. <http://magiozal.blogspot.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
