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>and incredibly proprietary CPU This is the opposite of true. sparcv8 is an IEEE standard. You might have to pay a license fee to Sparc International for certi
by linksnapzz 4y ago
>and incredibly proprietary CPU
This is the opposite of true. sparcv8 is an IEEE standard. You might have to pay a license fee to Sparc International for certification and logo compliance, but that's it. Sun couldn't and didn't stop you from making them.
- panick21_ 4y agoThat only true for SPARCv8 and the first SPARCv9 was interceded in 1995. The IEEE standard was from 1994. So practically speaking, Sun did move to proprietary CPUs. First when they interceded SPARC and then again when they switched to SPARCv9. Granted a few years in between when there was a slight amount of competition but that was over by the mid-90s before x86 ever took off fully.
- linksnapzz 4y agoPlease look up what "interceded" means. Even if v9 isn't an IEEE standard, you can still pay Sparc Intn'l for a license. Try going to intel with a request to make x86 chips.
- panick21_ 4y ago> Please look up what "interceded" means. That was an Autocorrect issue ... One can say that 'incredibly proprietary' was wrong, it was less proprietary then many other CPU at the time. It doesn't really change the analysis. Practically speaking that gave most Sun costumers very few option, and increasingly less as the 90s went on. There were just to many RISC ISAs competing for to little market. Sun tried to play the vertical integration walled garden game and in that game its really, really damn hard to win.