On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:44, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
SPARC vs MIPS
(vs Alpha)
PowerPC versus x86 ... just because we lost doesn't mean we don't keep
having that fight. ;-)
Interestingly enough a similar new fight in the same RISC vs CISC (if
those labels are actually sill relevant in todays virtualisied
on-the-fly recompilation processor architectures) wars seems to be the
upcoming ARM-vs-Intel (Atom, or Pinetrail or whatever) flamewars!
Already some skirmishes are happening on the smartphone/tablet
borders, but fanboys on either side are prepping their keyboards on
the emerging netbook front...
Heavy casualties expected on all tech blogs. Civilians are asked to
say well clear of the bleeding edge tech, as interesting hardware will
no doubt to be deemed obsolete within a year, and can then be had
second hand for a song :-)
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Joachim Thiemann ::
http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem