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Re:Yegge, Clojure, and Arc by ajb on Saturday February 07, 2009 @03:54AM (#470970)
As far as VMs go, I have a horrible suspicion that the x86 will still be with us in 2109. For a while it looked like we might be able to abstract it away, but EC2 and its clones seems to have entrenched it again.
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Re:Yegge, Clojure, and Arc by wheels on Saturday February 07, 2009 @06:21AM (#471059)
The x86 may live for a good while, but within a couple years there will be far more "computers" running ARM processors than x86.

I expect the CPU architecture landscape to change most radically as the lines become indistinguishably blurry between telephones, computers and entertainment consoles.

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Re:Yegge, Clojure, and Arc by anamax on Monday February 09, 2009 @12:20PM (#473759)
> The x86 may live for a good while, but within a couple years there will be far more "computers" running ARM processors than x86.

x86 isn't Intel's highest volume ISA by a couple of orders of magnitude - 8051 is.

I suspect that x86 is behind several other microcontrollers.

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