[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Michael Kraemer]

John Wallace schrieb:

> What's low-tech about modern high-end consumer chips? A modern high
> end ARM-based mobile phone is one of the most amazing pieces of
> advanced electronics hardware that you're likely to see.

Maybe I should have written

"consumer electronics and relatively low-tech like DRAM"

as opposed to "high-tech" such as workstation/server CPUS.
For these, intel/Motorola/TI etc would have been a better place
to go for DEC back then.

> Despite Intel's efforts of the last few years, their x86 folk still
> have nothing technically or commercially to compete with a modern ARM-
> based (or even MIPS-based) "system on chip", as used in practically
> every consumer appliance from broadband routers via mobile phones to
> TVs and media servers and ... The firmware quality in these things is
> frequently rubbish, but that's another story.

One might speculate if those ARMs are beginning to kill x86 from the
bottom up just like x86 did with large parts of the classical
RISC ecosystem. Tit for tat, so to say.