On 2012-12-10, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Grant Edwards
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> 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.
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