On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:54:46PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: | On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 16:17, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | > What!? PPC takes priority!? I thought you didn't want to support | > obscure architectures! | | I think this whole which architecture takes priority is silly. It is. | As a correction only, I'd like to point out that 10-15% of desktop | computers sold yearly are Macs with PowerPC's. PowerPC is also used | extensivly as an embedded chip due to low power draw. It is also | used in high-end servers. | | Sourceforge, for example, has a RS/6000 running Debian 2.2. I don't know a whole lot about PPC, but M68K is much better designed that x86. I imagine Motorola kept that quality in PPC. I wonder how PPC compares to SPARC ... cost is usually the biggest factor in purchasing decisions, though. I got a taste of the x86 design during my Intro to Asm (m68k) class. Ugh. Still, I run x86 ... My intent was merely to play a sort of devil's advocate and discredit the "priority arch" idea (only semi-subtley). -D -- Misfortune pursues the sinner, but prosperity is the reward for the righteous. Proverbs 13:21 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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