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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (85594)	1/6/2000 3:44:00 PM
From: Greater Fool	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572637

At the risk of serious injury to myself, I'll pose the following question: x86 microprocessors formed a de facto standard over the last couple of decades, the Apple and Sparc efforts notwithstanding. This standard allowed extraordinary (economically speaking) profits in microprocessors, as users were obligated to use Wintel PCs in order to be able to exchange data. Isn't there a risk that some processor-independent standard, such as that used by web-based applications, will ruin much of that standard? I have been thinking about this as I have very much come to hate PCs, or computers in general, for their awkwardness and unreliability. It strikes me as absurd how much time is required to install applications, and how uncertain the result of that application is. I've gotten very used to installing applications only to find out they don't quite run on my operating system (NT). I mention this because it would be a shame for AMD to invest so heavily in participating in a market that might very quickly become irrelevant. The profits that lured AMD in might disappear upon arrival.