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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by pjmlp on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:59PM (#30519198)
Indeed, after being founded 37 years ago, servers are hardly impacted by ARM, and Macs are meaningless for 80% of the desktop world, which by the way are still Intel in what concerns the Mac Pro workstation.

So cheerleading for RISC-V to overtake in a couple of years what took ARM 37 years to achieve, is really flying high.

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by vineyardmike on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:01PM (#30519219)
AWS is moving big into ARM, and macs are just the first consumer computers to move - not the last. The story isn't over yet.

> so cheerleading for RISC-V to overtake in a couple of years what took ARM 37 years to achieve, is really flying high.

Oh yea i agree it won't be a few years. It'll be many years - but it'll move faster than ARM did just because its so much easier to do today than 37 years ago.

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by pjmlp on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:24PM (#30520218)
Macs were also the first consumer computers to move into PowerPC.

I can hardly execute Mac software as old as some stuff I have on Windows floppies, backwards compatibility is what keeps x86 ruling on the desktop.

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by vineyardmike on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:56PM (#30619221)
All Javascript based web apps run on ARM Mac and Intel Mac without any rewriting or migrations. Not even with a compat layer like rosetta. When a RISCV OS gets a major browser, then most people (not HN crowd maybe) will be able to do their day-to-day work on it.

Yes stuff from 2000 doesn't run today, and yes, its unlikely that web apps will age well, but it does change how people think about software for the average user. A sufficiently large people don't care about backwards compatibility, and apple's graveyard of un-runnable software proved it.

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