Re:Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf]
by ChuckNorris89 on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:19AM
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>And now – with both Apple and Qualcomm – we have this embedded crap powering general purpose laptops…
Indeed. This is why I'm not as enthusiastic about an ARM desktop future as everyone else is and honestly I'm quite terrified. The happy accident that the original IBM PC was, is that it had and open BIOS and HW interfaces which allowed HW vendors to come up with clones that were compatible with the rest of the ecosystem allowing for a chaotic anarcho-democracy where no vendor had control over the ecosystem, so today in the PC realm we have this open garden that everyone can install virtually whatever HW and SW they want.
Now, Apple, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Nvidia(through their desired acquisition of ARM) have seen the mistakes IBM has made which got them kicked out of their own ecosystem and, instead of going through a standardized, open route, try to create their own HW+SW walled gardens where they can rule with an iron fist and lock everything in.
I don't care if they bring 2X the performance/slimness, I just don't want to be locked into a walled garden and then be monetized through rent-seeking behavior.
Re:Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf]
by zozbot234 on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:23AM
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The IBM PC was never "standardized" in any sense. It was simply one out of many de-facto standards. Early PC's didn't even support any sort of hardware enumeration, that only came way later with "Plug and Play"-compatible hardware.
Indeed. This is why I'm not as enthusiastic about an ARM desktop future as everyone else is and honestly I'm quite terrified. The happy accident that the original IBM PC was, is that it had and open BIOS and HW interfaces which allowed HW vendors to come up with clones that were compatible with the rest of the ecosystem allowing for a chaotic anarcho-democracy where no vendor had control over the ecosystem, so today in the PC realm we have this open garden that everyone can install virtually whatever HW and SW they want.
Now, Apple, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Nvidia(through their desired acquisition of ARM) have seen the mistakes IBM has made which got them kicked out of their own ecosystem and, instead of going through a standardized, open route, try to create their own HW+SW walled gardens where they can rule with an iron fist and lock everything in.
I don't care if they bring 2X the performance/slimness, I just don't want to be locked into a walled garden and then be monetized through rent-seeking behavior.