[Info-vax] [OT] Portable operating systems, was: Re: PowerX Roadmap -

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-09-21 19:03, David Froble wrote:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> The 64bit AMD extensions are not really comparable to what we're
>> talking about here. And it only really became a success as Intel also
>> decided to adopt it.
>
> That's not exactly how it happened.  AMD's 64 bit was successful, and if
> Intel hadn't adopted it, they would have lost the x86 market.  Even
> after AMD's stuff hit the market, Intel was resisting.  Finally someone
> at Intel decided that if they didn't conform, they were toast.

True that Intel did resist. They tried to push Itanium. But they quickly 
realized they could ignore that people wanted to stay on x86, so they 
had to make sure they were protected on that front.

I still cannot see this as being anywhere similar to having AMD 
introduce something incompatible with Intel in the x86 at this point.

	Johnny