besides competition is good - since when have you, as a/. reader, been against competition ?
i'm not against competition, but in a competition, there has to be winners and losers. sad fact is, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC etc etc are losing, or have already lost, to the x86 juggernaut. i don't care if an Athlon is a series of ugly x86 kludges piled upon a RISC core...the Athlon system cost $2,000, and Alpha system cost $3,500, and there wasn't $1500 worth of extra performance between the two systems.
If you weren't convinced how clueless (I'm still trying to decide if it's deliberate or accidental) John Taschek is, take a look at http://www.netcraft.com. PC Week's site is running none other than Apache 1.3.12!! (on Solaris).
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besides competition is good - since when have you, as a /. reader, been against competition ?
i'm not against competition, but in a competition, there has to be winners and losers. sad fact is, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC etc etc are losing, or have already lost, to the x86 juggernaut. i don't care if an Athlon is a series of ugly x86 kludges piled upon a RISC core...the Athlon system cost $2,000, and Alpha system cost $3,500, and there wasn't $1500 worth of extra performance between the two systems.
As sad as it is, the Alpha loses.
If you weren't convinced how clueless (I'm still trying to decide if it's deliberate or accidental) John Taschek is, take a look at http://www.netcraft.com. PC Week's site is running none other than Apache 1.3.12!! (on Solaris).
Kinda ironic, isn't it?