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Sure, but the fact remains that AMD64 won in the market, despite the incumbent near-monopoly "Wintel" advantages.
by pjc50 11mo ago
Sure, but the fact remains that AMD64 won in the market, despite the incumbent near-monopoly "Wintel" advantages.
- pjmlp 11mo agoThe whole premise is that it only won because AMD exists, and was allowed to come up with it. People don't read comments before replying?
- Joker_vD 11mo agoIn that different world, Transmeta would actually succeed in the market of x86-compatible CPUs and, perhaps, would even come up with their own 64-bit extension. Itanium would still flop. Or maybe, if the push came to shove, the desktops would switch to something entirely different like Alpha. Or ARM! Such event would likely force ARM to come up with their AArch64 several years sooner than it actually happened.
- pjmlp 11mo agoTransmeta wasn't a success story to start with, died before Itanium, and Intel is one of the patent holders.