On 1/27/23 12:07, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 1/27/23 11:58, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I mean, many of are typing on the descendants of them right now. The rest all failed in the marketplace.
"Were eventually discontinued" is not the same as "failed in the marketplace". Many were wildly successful before being supplanted by other architectures. You know this.
Similar thinking but with the birth of virtual machines I foresee a x86 forever just because we can emulate it in software or hardware (microcode for example). Of course this is what mainframes have done for the longest time. Heck you can even have your single phone have a business setup and a personal setup (I've not tried this). Future vintage is going to be interesting. I hope we (humans) still care. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ