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Re: Anybody still hate x86 on principal?
« on: April 24, 2013, 01:59:50 PM »
Being an Apple ][ Fanboy. I used to have indifference to 68k family we should have been using 65c832's instead of those nasty closed unexpandable mackintoshes. But right now even though I work for Intel. At home the Non x86 machines outnumber my x86 machines (even including my retro x86 machines). But the thing I don't get is why people say the x86 architecture is "icky". The reason why 6502 was replaced by 68k was 68k could run faster and ppc replaced 68k for the same reason. It is also why Apple dropped ppc. and now Arm might do the same to x86. (I hope for my jobs sake it doesn't)
 

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Re: Anybody still hate x86 on principal?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2013, 05:47:43 AM »
Quote from: gertsy;732869
Only seen a few responses here that seem to have grasped the actual question. x86 is a 32 bit processor architecture. Looking at some of the responses you'd think it was a Microsoft product some way linked to Windows and not an Intel one or AMD Copy.
Mac, Linux and some other Unix variants all use this CPU architecture or the newer X64.


I guess I should have specified when I said X86 I meant Intel.