Hacker News
points by pjmlp 3 days ago | 0 comments
Windows on ARM is hardly going anywhere, and outside HN bubble, Windows x86 has a worldwide market share of 70%.

Also beware of what you wish for, that is basically the end of PCs when it comes to be, the dream of OEMs, going back to fully vertical integration as all computers used to be in the last century, with exception of PC clones, thanks to IBM failing to control the ecosystem.

[–] mepian 3 days ago
Before IBM PC there was the open ecosystem of the S-100 bus.
[–] pjmlp 2 days ago
There was, how well did it take off versus the Apple, Acorn, Atari, Amigas, C64, MSX, ZX Spectrum of the day?

It didn't, other than in some niches.