6 Jun
2005
6 Jun
'05
8:54 p.m.
On 6/6/05, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/7/05, O. Sharp <ohh at drizzle.com> wrote:
CISC deserve it. CISC has compact code size, thus higher cache hit
rate. DEC will do better with faster VAX than with Alpha.
vax, 9000
I think most of the eggs are in one basket now,
and not a very reliable
basket at that. :( Opinions?
It's a sad day; the end of an era. Every major computer platform in
the world runs on the oldest, and arguably weakest and cruftiest, CPU
architecture there is. CISC has won.
New there really is only one battle left: Unix versus Windows. Windows
'Longhorn' versus OS X 10.5, 'Leopard'. The leftovers go to Linux,
which is Unix anyway. So much for diversity.
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