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Okay, still somewhat biased...
by Brian on Wed 9th Jul 2003 20:03 UTC

The article was okay, but still somewhat biased, especially in concluding that RISC processors have always been faster. In my experience in the past 10 years comparing scientific programs to different architectures, especially suns and hps I've always consistently seen average desktop x86 machines being able handle more than 2x the throughput than cutting edge risc boxes more than 20x more expensive.

It all comes down to real competition. The funny part is that everyone always predicts that linux will fragment. What Linux has been doing is defragmenting the hardware vendors.

Freedom from vendor lockin to hardware! Down with MS! Down with Apple!

Man I wish DEC would have gotten a clue and tried to push the Alpha into the consumer arena. But in those years MS truly had a ton of lockin...