On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:42, Jon D. wrote: > I just read this good article "Will the real chip > standard please stand up?" [1] > In a nutshell it states that Intel would have everyone > believe that x86 is /the/ industry standards chip, but > the author argues that, while it's the pervasive > commodity, it's quite proprietary. He goes on to say > that the Sparc architecture is a free standard > according to IEEE (IEEE 1754-1994).
IEEE is just another organization like Intel or HP. Nobody _has_ to listen to them. They may define a "standard" but if nobody uses it then where does your definition of the word standard go? And have you ever designed a chip before? It ain't like writing code. You don't see too many open source hardware projects, or even open source hardware design software out there. Sure, any college kid can write a kernel in his bedroom... I can see why most just buy from Intel. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
