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Yeah, before X86 took the performance crown in the '90 most of EDA was done on mainframes or PowerPC workstations running UNIX, including SGI.
by ChuckNorris89 5y ago
Yeah, before X86 took the performance crown in the '90 most of EDA was done on mainframes or PowerPC workstations running UNIX, including SGI.
- _ph_ 5y agoIn professional environments, x86 really took over only in the mid-2000s, especially with the Opteron. Whether x86 ever took the performance crown is debatable, if you consider the big PowerPCs IBM still sells.