On 05/22/2016 11:27 AM, William Park wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 04:01:03PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: >> x86 almost vanquished RISC. No RISC worksations remain. On servers, >> RISC has retreated a lot. SPARC and Power don't seem to be growing. >> But from out in left field, ARM seems to be eating x86's lunch. ATOM, x86's >> champion, has been cancelled (at least as a brand). > You guys are talking about all the stuffs that failed... mainly because > they priced themselves right out of the market. RIP. Few of these technologies failed because of price. One thing that will put several nails in the coffin of a processor is not having a windows port. Another is having a proprietary OS.
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