Well, it's one of those if it ain't broke, don't fix it things. Like QWERTY keyboard layouts.
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debounced@kbin.run 9 months agohell, even intel tried to get away from x86 with itanium but failed miserably... and they screwed themselves again by recently dumping the RISC-V pathfinding a year after initiation. i worry about the future of Arc, but maybe they'll pull their head out of their ass on that one.
HidingCat@kbin.social 9 months ago
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The alternatives kind of need to support ACPI, or some similar standard
DeviceTree works for embedded devices, but it’s not great for end users who are trying to get interoperability between suppliers
z500@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Funny thing is the 8086 was only supposed to be a stopgap. Their next big thing ended up being a miserable flop, but the 8086 took off and the rest is history.