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Today not 'everyone' is using x86 - by a long margin - so it's a bit of a stretch to say that in a hypothetical alternative history an architecture that failed
by klelatti 4y ago
Today not 'everyone' is using x86 - by a long margin - so it's a bit of a stretch to say that in a hypothetical alternative history an architecture that failed in the market would be utterly dominant.
- pjmlp 4y ago85% of desktop users and about 90% cloud users certainly are. Mobile phones and tablets are mostly consumer devices, Apple's ARM laptops are only relevant for about 10% of the desktop market. Outside embedded devices and electronic appliances, every other CPU is a rounding error in what concerns the general public.
- temac 4y agoIf you exclude everything that does not go into your direction and make the hypothesis that a poor architecture would have risen and then would not have been replaced, you conclude that "everybody" would use it?
- pjmlp 4y agoWithout AMD64, Windows and UNIX would, that is what matters in this context.
- klelatti 4y agoSo not everyone, even in your chosen subset of the market.
- pjmlp 4y agoIt is a matter of market share.