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Based on the most widely used computing device today — the smartphone — he was also right on the RISC architecture thing (seeing as ARM is a RISC-style arch), a
by pdpi 8y ago
Based on the most widely used computing device today — the smartphone — he was also right on the RISC architecture thing (seeing as ARM is a RISC-style arch), and that trend is starting to expand to the datacenter too.
- mseebach 8y agoTanenbaum is criticising Linux for not being designed for portability - yet it was ported to DEC Alpha and SUN Sparc (a RISC processor) already in 1995. And (almost) all these smartphone RISC CPUs are indeed running a Linux kernel today. As someone else remarked, this is a pretty clean-cut showcase of the friction between computer science and computer engineering. Tanenbaum is theoretically right, but Linus built a platform that powered a revolution.
- pjmlp 8y agoWith the help of Compaq, SGI, Cray, Oracle, IBM and Intel, among others.