Anybody still hate x86 on principal?

[AmigaClassicRule]

Is there anybody here who stills hates x86 because PowerPC was better?

I do not think PPC is anyway better and I do not hate x86. x86 is doing it's job and ten times more...in fact I love my PC (x86) a lot. The real question, what are you going to do about it?

[AmigaClassicRule]

x86 isnt going away in the nearest future, but the top is a cold and lonely place, and others are compeeting for the top.

But going for x86 now, would IMHO be a wrong move, especially since ARM is now moving forward, plus PPC is far from gone.

If there were to be a move to an other architecture, such a decision has to be based on extensive research and good foresight.

So personally I think, that sticking to PPC for NG would be a good move, and as for classic, then FPGA would be the right choice.

I don't get this ARM thing. What is it? Is it a new hole CPU like PPC is for 68k and x86? Are you saying ARM is going to take over x86 and ARM is not backward compatible to x86?

I am a little confused here in this whole thing.

[AmigaClassicRule]

In principle, yes. But only in principle.

A whole bunch of posters go on about "hardware doesn't matter" and stuff, and to a great portion of the public that has always been true. But to a smaller segment of the populous the quality of the engineering matters, you might even know some of them. Heck, you might have even been one yourself. VHS vs. Beta anyone?

It's not because PowerPC is better, and like some other posters have chimed in, most other CPU architectures are better, The Itanium with its EPIC paradigm, the CELL BE, and the latest SPARC T4's and T5's are worth salivating over.

It's the principle, one of my core beliefs; The enemy of the 'very good', is the 'good enough'.

This is why I will always hate x86, even though I use it. No need to point out the irony.

Don't you find it ironic that you hate the x86 but yet you still use it?