Pentium life extermination

From: Shawn T. Rutledge <rutledge_at_cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
Date: Fri Sep 15 14:25:22 2000

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:31:50PM -0600, Will Jennings wrote:
> Hmm, well ignoring the heat, green house gasses, etc... I see it this way:
> each pentium sold = more $$$ for intel, which lets them buy more companies
> (they apparently own the justice department already, since they're more of a
> monopoly than microsoft), each new company = more money = more crap by intel

No they aren't. AMD keeps becoming a better competitor; remember it
wasn't that long ago that they only had cheaper but inferior clones, they
didn't have processors which actually performed better than Intel's,
even at the high end. But now they do. And there is also Transmeta.

And Linux runs on so many processors. Even WinCE runs on a lot of
processors, but Linux works so well that you usually only have to
recompile the applications. Consequently in the PDA market almost
noone uses Intel processors. Nowadays you make the choice based
entirely on cost rather than compatibility.

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