> Not sure I completely buy "Linux never woulda happened" but I definitely > think would still be alive and well if they had embraced x86
Then again, perhaps they were simply ahead of their time - Sun has been known for that before. The x86 platform is full of legacy and inherently inefficient, only because Intel invest billions of $ a year in research and production, can they pull this off. In fact, NetBurst (Pentium 4) almost cost them this throne, only to be saved by the small satellite team in Israel working off a fork of 1995's Pentium Pro destined for a new mobile micro-architecture (Pentium-M), that would eventually become known as "Core". Now it actually seems like we *could* be moving into a world not dominated by one single legacy architecture, spearheaded by the mobile revolution and the drive to squeeze every singe possible calculation out of a small 1000-4000mAh capacity. In other words, I believe for the first time in many years, x86 is actually being threatened. It's not hard to imagine Apple for instance, who already switched CPU micro- architecture 3 times over the last 15 years, jumping over to ARM for everything they do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
