25 years ago, IBM released the first IBM PC with 16 bit 8088 CPU (x86).
On a forum there is a prediction on future CPU that x86 instruction set/applications will survive into 2030. Will the same thing happen with PowerPC instruction set/applications?
"Regardless of whether it's quantum, light, or whatever doesn't have anything to do with whether it's x86 or not. I'd say yes, 24 years from now we'll still be using x86. Our dependency on it has simply grown too large to get away from it. However, it's not as though this is all bad. Modern x86 CPUs have very little in common with the original 8088, the true "x86" part is almost completely gone. Old x86 code is now translated into the CPU's native languange, then processed. This allows future CPUs to continue to move more and more towards a RISC based system, while still supporting the CISC x86 codebase, through translations."
