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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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