Subj : Re: Intel: Once mighty, now falling? To : poindexter FORTRAN From : hollowone Date : Sun Jun 01 2025 12:06:48 pF> pF> It'll still be weird to think of Intel in the past-tense when we're all pF> typing on ARM tablets with 5G networking and some different OS. I wonder pF> what it would take for Microsoft to *equally* support another pF> architeture again. Well, for as much as they supported MIPS back in the pF> day... pF> I also find it equally interesting to see that dominance of Windows can be tested if non-Intel architectures start gaining more trust. Windows is already on ARM so I don't believe it's huge issue. But if ARM+RISCV would become a nominal future for most and just intel+arm for gamers unless it's reinvented again... you never know. pure fantasy today.. but it's so boring in IT with Intel+Windows for so many years. -h1 .... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64) * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150) .