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Article #623158Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:06
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:06
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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: >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. Like ARM64? Alpha may have been a 64-bit processor, but it was hardly programmer-friendly.
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