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Article #623157Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:30
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:30
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On 6/20/2018 12:30 AM, Quadibloc wrote: > On Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 8:35:51 AM UTC-6, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote: >> ... by its monopolistic attitude towards the PC now >> that the World and its family are moving en masse to the >> ARM processors? > >> Is the PC also dying in the light of the RPi3, a 64 >> bit processor available for the price of a few bananas? > > Although I thought Microsoft was doing just fine with its x86 orientation - it > has a foot in the ARM camp too, but there it doesn't offer the ability to run > all those old applications... > > apparently they agree with you in part at Microsoft. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_windows_10/ > So Microsoft *can* move to other processors! I'd like to see the DEC Alpha chip updated to the current micron state of the technology... IMHO we need realistic alternatives to the x86 architecture. People can come up with all sorts of excuses why my opinion is wrong (in their estimation), but I may still have my own opinion... I am allowed my opinion. Thanks so much for that! (People may believe whatever they want... that's the usual thing that happens anyway, regardless of ant contradictory facts.) -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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