On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.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!
You speak in jest, but this is now the case for most of the applications people use... Even for legacy binaries, the solution has trended towards sticking the thing in a VM and accessing it over the network. -- :wq
