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History may have unrolled quite differently at that point, if the only choice was to shift architecture, then we may have seen a more diverse server CPU estate
by Nursie 5y ago
History may have unrolled quite differently at that point, if the only choice was to shift architecture, then we may have seen a more diverse server CPU estate being maintained. At that point Sun were still relevant, POWER systems were still being bought and deployed in larger proportions etc.
- pjmlp 5y agoNone of them would adopt Windows laptops running on POWER, just as one possible scenario.
- Nursie 5y agoTrue, but Apple were running Macbooks on power back then I think. I know windows was even more dominant then than it is now so perhaps large numbers of powerbooks was never on the cards. But in the server space the story might have been different. I take it intel were planning "Mobile Itanium" at some point?
- pjmlp 5y agoOn those days Apple market share was still of a company struggling to get out of insolvency, and they never had any significant market share outside North America during the last century. Yes, on the server it would have been differently, however Linux distributions might have still killed the other UNIX vendors with their CPUs alongside, as it happened.