Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u...
by fortran77 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @09:49AM
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> I believe that is the result of Microsoft's peculiar inability to switch architectures.
This is simply not true.
I'm running Windows right now--to post this response--on an ARM Windows laptop. Microsoft has had Windows on RISC machines. Alpha, MIPS, PowerP and Itanium. They were all reado, should any of these architecturs take off. (See: https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/08/05/come-meet-tenox-check-ou...)
This is simply not true.
I'm running Windows right now--to post this response--on an ARM Windows laptop. Microsoft has had Windows on RISC machines. Alpha, MIPS, PowerP and Itanium. They were all reado, should any of these architecturs take off. (See: https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/08/05/come-meet-tenox-check-ou...)
Stop spreading misinformation.