20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
7:37 a.m.
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Ah, yes... Where are the PowerPC ATX motherboards we were promised?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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.
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