[Info-vax] "x86 has only a few years left in the market place"

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-05-12 21:42, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 11:27:18 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>
>> Nobody likes x86-64.  Not even the folks at Intel, judging by the
>> number of times they've tried to replace it.
> 
> INTEL doesn't have the skills to replace it. That would be why they were caught red handed stealing Alpha tech.

Still, in the end, INTEL is still here, and making loads of money, while 
DEC is gone...

And every bet one a replacement for x86 so far has ended in disaster. 
One would think that people learn, which is what I think VSI has. 
Porting to anything but x86 would have been a bad decision.

   Johnny

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