On May 12, 2005, at 12:05 AM, DJA wrote:
The 68000 /did/ exist then. And IMO, it was and still is superior to anything x86ish.
Eh. Maybe. The 68000 had its own sets of problems. MMU stuff; somewhat strange FPU issues; memory-mapped I/O in a time when that was expensive; I think there were some interrupt issues I am forgetting nowadays.
But I wouldn't count the Power chip and its baby brother PPC out yet. With IBM quietly looking to make that CPU more affordable, better supported and thus more mainstream, we may yet see the x86 meet its just demise.
Maybe, but I would bet that the demise of x86 will come at the hands of ARM before Power. Eventually your cellphone ARM processor becomes fast enough that it can run everything that a desktop can with the exception of games.
-a
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