[Geek] The newest Switcher
Jun. 6th, 2005 09:35 pmOne ISA to rule them all, one ISA to find them; one ISA to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
The rumours were true. Apple is moving to Intel x86. I sit amazed. 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.
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.
The rumours were true. Apple is moving to Intel x86. I sit amazed. 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.
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.