Technology of the technologies (WAS: A Lisper asks, "Am I
supposed to like Smalltalk?")
Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene
edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Mon May 22 09:39:06 UTC 2006
tim Rowledge puso en su mail :
> Sadly this is almost true and I wonder how much damage a monoculture
> is going to cause in the long term. I don't think there has ever
> been a case where catastrophe didn't follow.
>
> Sort of good news is that the remaining major architecture is ARM,
> which utterly dominates non-desktop systems. Last year approximately
> 1.6*billion* ARMs were sold. I'm fairly sure that is a good bit more
> than sales of x86 units. Now if only we could do a decent job of
> using a load of ARMs instead of one or two x86. We'd save a lot of
> power but we'd have to start doing a better job of using multiple
> cpus effectively; but then we need to do that anyway.
I feel the same without your knowledge.
What think about X360 chip ? Could Microsoft go to some different what X86
in a future ?
Edgar
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