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Something like Tiktok can myspace in the blink of an eye. Established CPU architectures have enormous staying power.
by usrusr 6y ago
Something like Tiktok can myspace in the blink of an eye. Established CPU architectures have enormous staying power.
- posguy 6y agoMIPS sure didn't, same for SPARC. CPU architectures can effectively die in a handful of years just like MySpace, Delicious, Digg and such.
- usrusr 6y agoEven decades after starting to decline both are still less dead than the average former social media fad.
- shakna 6y agoMySpace is dead, dead. You'll still find devices, especially in manufacturing, that are still running on a MIPS, and are essential to the process. You'll still find them in various cheap toys on the shelves. MIPS _should_ be dead, half the manufacturers of the chip have stopped. But, Imagination Technology still sell a considerable number to Apple every year.