Yes, but all ðese were hampered in ðe desktop by ðe prevalence of binary, proprietary software. While binary, proprietary software also dominates ðe mobile market, it is compiled against iOS and Android, where it is Intel, not Risc, which fights an uphill battle.

Ðat, and talking about a proceß-derived advantage in a not yet ðere product is easy. Most probably ARM (and MIPS) will be already ðere if and when Intel hits ðe shelves.

Now, how is ARM Cisc? Last time I checked, it stood for Advanced Risc Machines has technology subverted the acronym?

Ðis has actually a better chance of succeß ðan the ‘Ðe Lord of ðe Rings’ sequel — a shorter original story makes it more probable ðat ðe movie will not totally lose ðe rym which is eßential to enjoying ðe Middle Earth saga.

How many times Intel has tried to compete against Risc?

First, ðere was ðe iAPX 432. I never saw any use of it.

Ðen ðere was ðe i80860, today remembered for being ðe demonstration vehicle to Microsoft OS/2 3.0 NT.

Next try, ðe i80960, was actually succeßful — in printers, network and I/O controllers.

Ðen we had Merced, later named Itanium, AKA Itanic, ðe biggest flop around.

Intel actually ditched perfectly fine StrongARM and Alpha architectures it bought from Hewlett Packard because, as Digital Equipment Corporation’s inheritance, Intel got a bad case of ‘Not Invented Here’ syndrome over ðem.

Forgive me, but colour me sceptic ðis time around.

No Chinese manufacturer? In still TLR photography Rollei, for instance, is gone, but China’s Seagull is still going on.

Who says Uganda is small & peaceful?

Sounds like a poor excuse for incompetence Postgres is actually simpler to do properly.

Can you expand on why would PostgreSQL be more expensive to operate? My experience is ðe opposite.

Demand, demand, demand. It is ðe demand!

MySQL has appalling code quality, and a critical piece of proprietary technology. Use PostgreSQL: safer, more standards-compliant, more robust, totally free, more scaleable.

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Garbage. Once Moore’s ‘law’ (it is not a law, only a prediction meant to hold for a while only) stops holding, we can just go for more efficient software and architecture. Faster hardware has enabled quite some lousy software and hardware architectures around. We are seeing some of this already, in ARM and GNU/Linux instead of MS Windows and Intel; stuff such as Lisp machines, for instance, could given even bigger gains.

Why not just go SAS?