🚀 go-pugleaf

J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:47:13 -0400, Peter Flass
> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2018-06-20, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Once we have a realistic alternative to Microsoft, the problem
>>> solves itself.
>>> 
>> 
>> We have had realistic alternatives since the 80's. What re need is a
>> realistic alternative to the sheeple who won't see it.
> 
> First you need to make a case that it's actually a realistic
> alternative.  If it makes us replace our current staff with one ten
> times the size in order to do manually all the stuff that we now do
> using features unique to Windows that are not replicated on other
> platforms, then it is not a win.
> 

You may be one of the unfortunates who are locked in, but probably 80% or
so do plain vanilla stuff that's easily ported.

Of course as a mainframe guy, I never could see why companies would want to
run mission-critical stuff on glorified video game consoles anyhow.

-- 
Pete