[Dr. Sivana]

Remember when RISC was supposed to be the future of high speed computing?

[jpsb]

Remember when RISC was supposed to be the future of high speed computing?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I do....worked on the first IBM RS6000 ...think that is right.

From the Wikipedia:

RISC System/6000, or RS/6000 for short

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RISC System/6000, or RS/6000 for short, is a family of RISC and UNIX based servers, workstations and supercomputers made by IBM in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT computer platform in February 1990 and was the first computer line to see the use of IBM's POWER and PowerPC based microprocessors. RS/6000 was renamed eServer pSeries in October 2000.

[Viking2002]

I'm in IT support and I'm so bogged down with work, red tape, and serial corporate idiocy, I don't even know what the hell is inside half the boxes I take a tool to anymore. I swear to God, I'm mothballing all my certs and becoming a park ranger. And the deeper in the forest, the better.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[antiRepublicrat]

Remember when RISC was supposed to be the future of high speed computing?

Almost every cell phone in the world runs RISC, and the smartphones are getting to be faster than the notebooks of only a few years ago while using a tiny fraction of their power. x86 dominated the "high-speed" portion for a while, but these days people are more interested in the highest performance for a specific power draw. People want it for their battery-powered devices, businesses want it because power is expensive. RISC absolutely dominates in that calculation.