This reminds me of the depressing trend of a
mostly-converged CPU
monoculture. Just about everything is x86/amd64 with the exception of
tablets and phones which often use ARM. What became of MIPS? SGI is just
another Intel server company. HP ditched PA-RISC and Alpha to fart around
with Itanium and otherwise sells Intel. Sun/Oracle is still going with
Sparc, but for how much longer? Oh, and they also sell Intel. Cray
ditched its vector, Alpha, and Sparc designs for AMD. Who did I miss?
POWER. There might not be Power Macs anymore, but every major console is
PowerPC, and IBM makes buck$$$ on POWER servers (says the man who dropped
$9K on a used POWER6). Plus PowerPC is crazy common in embedded environments
and there are still PPC Amigas.
</powerbigot>
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