Comment Re:Reminds me of CISC vs. RISC debate (Score 1) 514
> In the early 90s, there was this hot debate about RISC vs. CISC, and the merits of each, ...etc.
> This has all died out now, with CISC (read: Intel) coming out as a winner.
However, let me point out that probably the sole reason why CISC came out as a winner (we can argument this as well...) is that simply the economics of scale pushed intel's architecture forward as other companies struggled to stay profitable (look at SGI, they used to make their own chips...)
of course, AMD prevailed, because it supplied to the same pool (the windows world).
> This has all died out now, with CISC (read: Intel) coming out as a winner.
However, let me point out that probably the sole reason why CISC came out as a winner (we can argument this as well...) is that simply the economics of scale pushed intel's architecture forward as other companies struggled to stay profitable (look at SGI, they used to make their own chips...)
of course, AMD prevailed, because it supplied to the same pool (the windows world).
