Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Dec 2005 23:25 UTC, submitted by 4pLaY
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2005-10-25
You just can't replace the real deal, PC's have no soul.
PCs (note the lack of apostraphe) have plenty of soul - enough to dominate the industry. Is this what you mean by "no soul"?
There are many pedantic reasons why x86 suxors, but the truth is that only x86 has the combination of usability, ubiquity, marketability, and openness that has allowed several marketplaces to develop on it.
AMD bet on it with their AMD64/Opteron, and they won. Intel bet on it repeatedly against technically "superior" competition (EG: MIPS, sparc, et al) and won with X86.
It has its warts, (no solutions doesn't!) but no other platform has had the combination of technical "it works", cross-vendor compatability, marketability, and OS openness of x86.
It could even be argued that Linux wouldn't exist without the cheap, widely available power of x86. So, love it, hate it, whatever - but don't diss x86!