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> ... that x86 wouldn't scale The ACE Consortium formed in the early 90s picking MIPS as the chosen processor and included Microsoft and SCO. http://en.wikipe
by rogerbinns 15y ago
> ... that x86 wouldn't scale
The ACE Consortium formed in the early 90s picking MIPS as the chosen processor and included Microsoft and SCO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Computing_Environment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Computing_Environment
- flomo 15y agoEvery RISC vendor had their own little PC 'consortium' (except perhaps Sun SPARC). They never sold that well, and when te Intel Pentium Pro came out, it beat them on most specs, so the whole idea of a RISC PC died around 1996 (outside of Apple).