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atomlyon Why housing shortages cause homelessness

Question: Were you born in SF?

"Indeed. RISC architecture is gonna change everything."

"Yeah. RISC is good."

atomlyon Why Apple saddled the MacBook Air with "gimped" CPUs

"The End of x86?" Really? I think a few x86 processors are being used in some servers somewhere too. Or really in any computer that isn't meant to be carried.

True, there are similar (slower core, lower power) alternatives in the server market (Sun SPARC CMT systesms come to mind), but you didn't mention any of those and they don't have a significant foothold.