From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article <10boek6$1nure$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Simon Clubley   wrote:   
   >On 2025-10-02, Dan Cross  wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> David Goodwin   wrote:   
   >>   
   >> In general, arguing with Lawrence is like trying to reason with   
   >> a leaking pen: it doesn't change and just gets ink all over your   
   >> fingers.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Do you maintain a fortune file of these comparisons to cycle through ? :-)   
      
   Nah.  I just make 'em up as I go along.   
      
   >>>Set top boxes and routers were not the target market for Windows in the   
   >>>90s, and they are clearly not a market Microsoft is interested in   
   >>>pursuing today.   
   >>   
   >> Moreover, 99.9% of those MIPS CPUs that are outselling x86 are   
   >> embedded microcontrollers that just happen to use the MIPS   
   >> instruction set.  If they run any OS at all, it's way more than   
   >> likely to be some kind of RTOS.   
   >   
   >Here is one example at the lower end (which is also available in hobbyist   
   >friendly packaging):   
   >   
   >https://uk.farnell.com/microchip/pic32mx250f128b-i-sp/mcu-32bit   
   pic32-40mhz-spdip-28/dp/2097773   
      
   Yup.  That class of CPU probably outsells the sort of thing that   
   runs regular Linux by 100:1; it probably outsells anything that   
   people are putting uCLinux on by 20:1.  But the troll won't   
   understand that.   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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