Subj : Re: Operating Systems To : tenser From : Digital Man Date : Wed Apr 10 2024 10:47 pm Re: Re: Operating Systems By: tenser to Nightfox on Thu Apr 11 2024 06:23 am > Microsoft is not stupid. They see the trend and will react > accordingly, for as long as they intend to keep Windows as a going > concern (likely forever, but probably in a somewhat diminished > form, perhaps moving in favor of Linux over time). Microsoft also has created versions of Windows NT for MIPS, Alpha, i860, PowerPC and Itanium. So their ability to "see the trend and react accordingly" isn't fool proof. :-) > What you see _now_ has nothing to do with what you'll see in 2038. 14 years will go by pretty quick. 2010 wasn't so long ago now. I started working on ARM devices and hearing about how ARM was going to take over everything in 1999 (25 years ago, about). Maybe RISC-V and ARM will take over everything, maybe not. I could easily imagine 14 years now being very similar in balance of processor architectures and market share to what we see now. -- digital man (rob) Synchronet "Real Fact" #58: The last version of Synchronet to run on MS-DOS and OS/2 was v2.30c (1999) Norco, CA WX: 64.6øF, 47.0% humidity, 0 mph N wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs .