From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:41:00 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D’Oliveiro  writes:   
   >>   
   >> Because in general-purpose computing, the proprietary vendors   
   >> anyway (Microsoft being the obvious example) have a great deal of   
   >> trouble supporting more than one platform.   
   >   
   > Apple have changed architecture three times now ...   
      
   But never more than main one at a time -- not for longer than   
   absolutely needed to make the transition.   
      
   > ... HP and Sun at least twice each.   
      
   All the old HP minis and RISC architectures have gone. Itanium has   
   gone. HP only does x86 now. And Sun has gone.   
      
   > Microsoft support two architectures at present and have supported   
   > more in the past.   
      
   Windows-on-ARM is struggling. And Windows NT on non-x86 architectures   
   never lasted long. Fun fact: even on x86, which is now 64-bit, Windows   
   is still a 32-bit architecture at heart.   
      
   You see what I mean, don’t you?   
      
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