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> The opposite is true of ARM, however. There isn't even a non-proprietary standardized ARM platform. You have things like OMAP, but that's defined by TI: htt
by flatline3 14y ago
> The opposite is true of ARM, however.
There isn't even a non-proprietary standardized ARM platform. You have things like OMAP, but that's defined by TI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP
- rbanffy 14y agoFair enough. Microsoft is demanding no ARM-based platform running Win8 can have their locked-down boot mechanism disabled. In other words, Microsoft is demanding manufacturers make machines that can only run software Microsoft allows them to run. Sounds like a really boneheaded move.
- flatline3 14y ago> Sounds like a really boneheaded move. Or a market opportunity. Hard to say -- in many respects, the standardized PC is a fluke, created through clean-room reverse engineering and the resulting clone market.
- recoiledsnake 14y agoNicely put. Also, another huge factor in the standardized open PC was Microsoft licensing DOS to Compaq. That triggered the PC clones and the PC revolution which Linus leveraged with Linux and then Apple a decade and half later.