[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 19:25:55 schrieb Grant:
>
>> It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long.  Does anyone
>> think this won't happen?
>
> no
>
> two reasons:
>
> not enough power
> does not run x86 software
>
> the second one is a real deal breaker.

Only until somebody invents some sort of scheme where you can write a
program using a source language that isn't tied directly to the
processor architecture.  Then you'd be able to build programs (or even
OS kernels) so that they'd run on a variety of CPU architectures!

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