Indeed it would be sad.
PC market share made Intel great. It lowered prices, and powered the
Mhz war. It is doubtful that their chips were ever better,
architecture-wise or in terms of raw speed. Even today. take a look at
the Power 6 chip that IBM is touting recently. Or for that matter
Sun's UltraSPARC 'Niagara' range. Can't Touch This, as MC Hammer would
say!
The other day I had to explain to a bewildered second year (MUK)
class why Java and its machine-independence was such a big deal way
back then. They have grown up in a world where Computer = Intel =
Windows, and can't understand all the fuss. (Sadly, Linux is not much
in the running there, for reasons too long to recount.)
P.
On Apr 15, 2008, at 21:17, Niles Collins wrote:
Yeah, intel chips are better than Power PC chips, but i have very
little experience with Power PC chips. I always felt that if one
company dominated the PC chip market then that would stop
innovation. AMD makes great chips and that is all i buy but they are
still derivatives of the i386 architecture which i believe is an
intel standard. Intel seems to be locking up the micro chip market.
A lot of phone are going to start using their Atom processor now.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Mark Tinka
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Niles Collins wrote:
> Apple should have
> stayed with IBM and Power PC chips if they wanted to stop
> this from happening.
Not a strong-enough case to ignore more superior
microprocessors (or so I think). You see even Cisco are
departing from Motorola Freescale and IBM's PPC in favour
of Intel-driven control planes.
Copy-catting is a fact of life - Apple should figure out how
to deal with it.
Mark.
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