Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : Digital Man
From : tenser
Date : Fri Apr 12 2024 08:17:39

On 11 Apr 2024 at 11:13a, Digital Man pondered and said...
 
 DM>  > I some sense, ARM did kinda take over everything.  Consider all
 DM>  > the places that you used to stick a 68k or a Dragonball or 8085;
 DM>  > what's in those now?  Mostly Cortex-M, and RISC-V is coming up
 DM> 
 DM> ARM is huge (especially in consumer electronics), no doubt, and
 DM> definitely PPC and MIPS are dynosaurs today, but they're *still* used in
 DM> automotive, in very large volumes, and in other safety-critical
 DM> industries (aviation, aerospace) along with other obscure architectures
 DM> (e.g. Infineon's TriCore architecture) that won't be going away any time
 DM> soon.
 DM> 
 DM> There are other differentiating features beyond performance and power
 DM> consumption, that keep some of these non-ARM architectures thriving,
 DM> believe it or not. :-)

I totally do!  There's also still a lot of SPARC in aerospace,
somewhat weirdly.  Register windows are still a bad idea,
though.  :-)

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