I didn't know that about the Pentium Pro - fascinating. I always did like the pentium pro when it came out - there was something about it that just worked so nicely - I wondered what happened to that lineage. I guess I am using it now ;)
On Feb 27, 9:34 pm, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Not sure I completely buy "Linux never woulda happened" but I definitely > > think would still be alive and well if they had embraced x86 > > Then again, perhaps they were simply ahead of their time - Sun has > been known for that before. The x86 platform is full of legacy and > inherently inefficient, only because Intel invest billions of $ a year > in research and production, can they pull this off. In fact, NetBurst > (Pentium 4) almost cost them this throne, only to be saved by the > small satellite team in Israel working off a fork of 1995's Pentium > Pro destined for a new mobile micro-architecture (Pentium-M), that > would eventually become known as "Core". > > Now it actually seems like we *could* be moving into a world not > dominated by one single legacy architecture, spearheaded by the mobile > revolution and the drive to squeeze every singe possible calculation > out of a small 1000-4000mAh capacity. In other words, I believe for > the first time in many years, x86 is actually being threatened. It's > not hard to imagine Apple for instance, who already switched CPU micro- > architecture 3 times over the last 15 years, jumping over to ARM for > everything they do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
