Everyone knows that x86 is not and never was a superior architecture compared to others. These days, if not for the pre-existing large user base, the entire x86 architecture would never survive commercially.
Today they still make each chip backwards compatible with the original real mode on the 8088 pc, certainly an amazing feat, however not something to be proud of inside of, let's say, one's iphone.
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x86 as a defacto standard
Everyone knows that x86 is not and never was a superior architecture compared to others. These days, if not for the pre-existing large user base, the entire x86 architecture would never survive commercially.
Today they still make each chip backwards compatible with the original real mode on the 8088 pc, certainly an amazing feat, however not something to be proud of inside of, let's say, one's iphone.