Too true. Looks more like an Intel vs. ARM future. I'm not enough of a computer scientist to know which is "better". I stopped learning the Intel architecture in the i568 time frame. I did _not_ like it. I have looked a bit at ARM and I would likely have been a RISC bigot back in the day.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Bob Shannon <bshan...@rocketsoftware.com>wrote: > > OK. Legally licensed? > > Processor speed increases have slowed and emphasis is being placed on more > concurrent processes. This raises the possibility of emulating > zArchitecture on Power and eliminating z-specific hardware, something > that's been speculated about for years. With the hardware furloughs this > week, who knows what's going to happen with IBM hardware. > > Bob Shannon > Rocket Software > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
