Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Apr 11 2024 14:29:00

-=> Digital Man wrote to tenser <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: Operating Systems
 DM>   By: tenser to Digital Man on Fri Apr 12 2024 12:12 am

 > I some sense, ARM did kinda take over everything.  Consider all
 > the places that you used to stick a 68k or a Dragonball or 8085;
 > what's in those now?  Mostly Cortex-M, and RISC-V is coming up

 DM> ARM is huge (especially in consumer electronics), no doubt, and
 DM> definitely PPC and MIPS are dynosaurs today, but they're *still*
 DM> used in automotive, in very large volumes, and in other
 DM> safety-critical industries (aviation, aerospace) along with other
 DM> obscure architectures (e.g. Infineon's TriCore architecture) that
 DM> won't be going away any time soon.

Yes, and I believe that many banking ATMs still run OS/2 for some 
reason, and I know that MANY Point-of-Sale devices/systems still run 
good old MSDOS.  Not worth the effort/expense to update those systems, 
and they're reliable.

 DM> There are other differentiating features beyond performance and
 DM> power consumption, that keep some of these non-ARM architectures
 DM> thriving, believe it or not. :-)

Yup, and reliability/niche-status are two of them.  



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