Apple Goes Intel...

[9000 VAX]

On 6/6/05, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/7/05, O. Sharp <ohh at drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

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

> 
> 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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