On 2012-12-10, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 19:25:55 schrieb Grant: >>> >>>> It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone >>>> think this won't happen? >>> >>> no >>> >>> two reasons: >>> >>> not enough power >>> does not run x86 software >>> >>> the second one is a real deal breaker. >> >> Only until somebody invents some sort of scheme where you can write a >> program using a source language that isn't tied directly to the >> processor architecture. Then you'd be able to build programs (or even >> OS kernels) so that they'd run on a variety of CPU architectures! > > You speak in jest, but this is now the case for most of the > applications people use...
For an increasingly large segment of the population, the the "software" they use is 1) A web browser to access stuff that runs on a server somewhere of inderminate architecture (GMail, Salesforce, Facebook, Youtube, miniclip, pinsta-whatever, etc.). 2) A collection of smartphone/tablet apps, most of which aren't even available for x86. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! What GOOD is a at CARDBOARD suitcase ANYWAY? gmail.com