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Re:Browser Wars, the game by btown on Saturday February 16, 2013 @07:41PM (#5233741)
And that monolithic mono-culture was NOT able to evolve to reduce power consumption in a reasonable timeframe. It wasn't even a big priority, since nobody expected x86 to be in a person's pocket, ever. (AFAIK). It took an outside player, ARM, to drive the debate. So it's pretty much a validation of what Mozilla's saying.
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Re:Browser Wars, the game by skatepark on Saturday February 16, 2013 @09:38PM (#5233988)
The big difference is that nobody insisted that ARM stay instruction-level compatible with x86.
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