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No one bought it on those alternative ISAs, however. The Alphas and MIPS vendors had a port but what percentage of those systems ended up running a Unix? This
by shrubble 2y ago
No one bought it on those alternative ISAs, however. The Alphas and MIPS vendors had a port but what percentage of those systems ended up running a Unix? This time it is different since DOS and 16bit Windows is out of the picture.
This time you have multiple vendors/OEMs actually shipping e.g. Snapdragon-based Windows systems. Lenovo might make money selling such laptops, but over time MSFT will be the largest beneficiary of the "CPU wars".
- The_Colonel 2y agoThere was already Windows on ARM in not so distant past, but it failed. I'm not convinced this time it will be different.
- Marsymars 2y agoThere was Windows RT, which failed, but the current Windows on ARM platform has been a thing since 2017. The first few Win10 on ARM devices aren't upgradeable to Windows 11, but anything since the Snapdragon 850 in 2018 is fully supported by Windows 11: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-qualcomm-processors https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/mi... I guess it could still fail, but to me it seems a bit weird to be predicting the failure of a 7 year-old platform just when it's starting to see a real uptick in momentum.