[Info-vax] "x86 has only a few years left in the market place" (was: Re: Free Pascal for VMS ?)

[Scott Dorsey]

x86 isn't going away any time soon, as much as Intel and the rest of us
wish it would just curl up and blow away.

ARM is a fine architecture with a great future in front of it, but I don't
see it getting a toehold in the server market any time soon unless some 
big changes are made.

I think if anything takes the place of the x86, it's going to be one of
the weird Chinese proprietary RISC architectures like the Sunway or the
Loongyan.  Once they gain a foothold in the domestic market there, we
in the rest of the world will be stuck with them.

That said.... one of the big advantages of Linux is that it was based on
a system archiecture designed for easy porting, so no matter what the
architecture of the future turns out to be, Linux will likely move to it
well.  This is less likely to be the case for VMS although the porting that
is being done right now is the first opportunity to make it more machine
independent in a while.
--scott

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