4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
8:14 a.m.
On 06/04/2013 11:01 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
This is nuts. "Failed"?? Why? Because they're not used as the
processors
in iPads and eMachines PCs?
I'm sorry but, I think you've finally lost it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
I'd guess
one major factor is that Intel's early market domination
allowed it to sink lots of money into chip design and R&D -- IOW, they
succeeded in spite of the architecture, not because of it. "With
sufficient thrust, pigs can fly."
Yes, I can't really disagree with that.
Except perhaps with the slight cavil that Sun and IBM, in particular,
also threw really quite a lot of money and effort at their RISC lines,
and HP and Intel at its non-traditional line, and still failed.