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The funny thing is that this is precisely what SPARC did to the VAX.


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AStonesThrow10/02/2024

I don't know, it seems that while SPARC was an industry leader, there were plenty of peers competing in that space helping to supersede VAX.

HP PA-RISC, RS/6000, MIPS on SGI and others, DEC Alpha itself. Every workstation and server vendor had a proprietary architecture and a Unix variant to match.

jrpelkonen10/01/2024

It now it seems likely that arm64 will do the same to amd64.

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