In message <201003080329.o283TQIc011056_at_hergotha.csail.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollma n writes: >If we were talking about 100 architectures, I might feel differently, >but in this universe, we have, what? eight? And there are how many >architectures currently in mass production? This whole discussion is >ridiculous. Actually, that conclusion is probably premature. The System-On-Chip concept is boiling over these days, and everybody and his brother are designing CPUs for themselves. 100 is unlikely, but 8 may be 20 in two years time, depending on the way the wind blows. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Mon Mar 08 2010 - 11:16:54 UTC
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