Re: I once actually learned something from this group

aku ankka wrote:
>> Well, the issue of "how terrible it is that we are locked in to X86"
>> keeps coming-up.
> 
> Forgot also that x86 isn't the best selling processor on the market..
> just on laptops and desktops, I recall seeing that the ARM and such
> sell a lot more units. Could be wrong.. anyone cares to contest that?

The ARM is the basis of most cellphones, so just by that platform alone 
it is the biggest selling chip architecture family. However, that does 
not mean that it is the architecture with the most applications. X86 
architecture has the most, likely followed by the Sparc architecture. 
For that matter most general purpose processor architectures have more 
applications than the ARM, because ARM is used with a lot of proprietary 
platforms, since every cellphone maker wants to be different than their 
competition, so they use customized OS and apps.

	Yousuf Khan