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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:06:36 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ka5brs$hbj$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1372428.YfDgYWYQ2y@localhost

On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 19:25:55 schrieb Grant:
>
>> It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long.  Does anyone
>> think this won't happen?
>
> no
>
> two reasons:
>
> not enough power
> does not run x86 software
>
> the second one is a real deal breaker.

Only until somebody invents some sort of scheme where you can write a
program using a source language that isn't tied directly to the
processor architecture.  Then you'd be able to build programs (or even
OS kernels) so that they'd run on a variety of CPU architectures!

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! TONY RANDALL!  Is YOUR
                                  at               life a PATIO of FUN??
                              gmail.com            



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-10 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-09  3:25 [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world? Grant
2012-12-09  3:51 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-09 19:24   ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-09 19:53     ` Marc Joliet
2012-12-11  2:00   ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13 13:45   ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-09  3:52 ` microcai
2012-12-09  8:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-09 21:44   ` Grant
2012-12-10  5:49     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-09 23:23   ` Grant
2012-12-10  3:06     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-12-10  5:35     ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 15:46       ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-12-10 18:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-10 19:06   ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2012-12-10 19:15     ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mol
2012-12-10 19:33       ` Grant Edwards
2012-12-10 19:38     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 20:06       ` Grant Edwards
2012-12-10 20:20         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-10 20:37         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 21:10           ` Grant
2012-12-10 21:23             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 21:33               ` Grant
2012-12-10 21:42                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-12 17:05                   ` James
2012-12-12 17:26                     ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-12 17:55                       ` James
2012-12-12 18:40                         ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-13  5:02                       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-13  6:06                         ` Pandu Poluan
2012-12-13 14:10                           ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-13  0:33                     ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13  1:00                       ` Grant
2012-12-13 11:24                         ` Kevin Chadwick
2012-12-13 13:37                         ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13 18:29                       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-14 17:13                         ` Walter Dnes

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