In message <201003080329.o283tqic011...@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollma
n writes:

>If we were talking about 100 architectures, I might feel differently,
>but in this universe, we have, what? eight?  And there are how many
>architectures currently in mass production?  This whole discussion is
>ridiculous.

Actually, that conclusion is probably premature.

The System-On-Chip concept is boiling over these days, and everybody
and his brother are designing CPUs for themselves.

100 is unlikely, but 8 may be 20 in two years time, depending on
the way the wind blows.

Poul-Henning

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