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> This is the Sputnik moment for open source Does it need to be? x86 had every opportunity to become a locked-down, exclusive standard too, and it grew the way
by ironmagma 6y ago
> This is the Sputnik moment for open source
Does it need to be? x86 had every opportunity to become a locked-down, exclusive standard too, and it grew the way it did, into a cross-vendor standard, for a reason. Why will a similar trajectory not apply to the M1?
- ddingus 6y agoBecause M1 / Arm has a locked down base to draw from, unlike Intel / AMD. Way different roots in mobile when compared to PC
- fieldcny 6y agoThe history of the x86 instruction set is very complicated and involves a number of lawsuits and settlements. What you see today is the fruit decades of fighting and wrangling.
- skohan 6y agoAs far as I understand, x86 is a duopoly, and AMD is allowed to produce it because antitrust litigation resulted in Intel being required to allow a second party to implement their instruction set. Also Intel is a very different entity than Apple. They produce commodity hardware, where Apple creates consumer experiences. Apple's incentive is to keep M1 closed to give their software ecosystem an edge vs. competitors.
- yuhong 6y agoI'd probably trust MITS to not attack Altair clones (aka S-100) the way IBM attacked PC clones (in the 1980s).