On Tuesday 21 December 2010, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
> Some of you guys mentioned a hatred for x86. (By which I presume you
> also mean x86_64). What do you hate about it and why? Which
> architecture do you prefer and why? (Speak on the level of a guy who
> knows a bit about assembly code and CPUs but is not an expert.)
>
> Also, what other architectures can you buy if you just want to buy
> one PC or a small server box?
ARM is making quite a showing as of late. Not only in the embedded space
(cell phones, etc; Snapdragon was based on ARM v7), but they are even
making a play for the server space. Linux on ARM is fairly well
supported.
I haven't compared costs, but I'm under the impressions that it may cost
a little extra to start with an ARM system, but the savings are
supposed to come in the drastically lower power requirements.
j
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