Post AqtDCkF4gla8f1kUjY by lepidotos@bitbang.social
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 (DIR) Post #Aqt90bQlDyMO2aAaBM by geerlingguy@mastodon.social
       2025-02-07T21:33:47Z
       
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       "RISC architecture is gonna change everything."
       
 (DIR) Post #AqtCIL7itMqSXYPkGm by DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange
       2025-02-07T21:41:30Z
       
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       @geerlingguy I'm still a bit disgruntled that PowerPC and OpenFirmware on CHRP didn't take off.If Apple pulled something Rhapsody-like out earlier and Microsoft had kept a PPC release into Windows 2000, I think maybe we would have seen enough inertia to have PPC chips get the investment and development they deserved. We'd be in a different world today, I think.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqtCIMGcdlYe5RaMmO by m0xee@social.librem.one
       2025-02-07T22:38:53Z
       
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       @DarcMoughty @geerlingguyBig Endian PowerPC machines could still be alive and kicking with Linux had Google not given up on the architecture, phasing it out in Go (you can have Go 1.10 with gccgo, but that isn't much by today's standards) and in V8 (and consequently Node.js), LLVM on PowerPC is often buggy so your mileage with Rust may vary. All in all lots of modern software simply can't be built 😩
       
 (DIR) Post #AqtDCkF4gla8f1kUjY by lepidotos@bitbang.social
       2025-02-07T22:49:04Z
       
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       @m0xee Here's where I point out that POWER9 is still mixed-endian and you can run a Talos II or Blackbird in big-endian... if you really want to. The only real concern there is graphics, nothing newer than an HD 6990.