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Others have come out but they never grab a foothold because you literally have to recompile everything. Some companies have even included their own compilers and optimizers but then you run into other packages and binaries that don’t work on anything but x86. One company literally wanted to give us a new 256-core system they were prototyping for a large scale web farm, but we ran into too many package issues that we couldn’t convert over to their architecture. And that was with Linux.

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nehal3m@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Apple succeeded at switching over to ARM though, they’re thriving.

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- wax@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They have more direct control over their software ecosystem though
  
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  - nehal3m@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Absolutely, an iron fist. But that worked out well in this case.
    
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    wax@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yup, smart move for sure
    
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- z500@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They’ve already switched architectures twice before, so they’ve got some experience at it.
  
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- Ocelot@lemmies.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Apple definitely has a way of doing what is right sometimes, and forcing the industry’s hand to move forward.
  
  … Sometimes. Sometimes this definitely backfires, but not this time.
  
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geosoco@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yup. Some like DEC even offered on-the-fly binary recompilation from x86 to Alpha in windows, back when windows NT was available on 4 or 5 different processors (PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, x86, and I think eventually Intel's original x86 64-bit replacement.

x86 has evolved so much in the last 40 years that it's still able to keep a foothold for PCs.

I'm curious what's about to happen moving forward as they continue to shrink transistor sizes.

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