[geeks] New POWER9 motherboard coming out...

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 21:33 Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghegan60 at gmail.com wrote:

>
> On 2/7/19 6:11 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:28 PM Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghegan60 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I believe FreeBSD was looking at a little endian port to Power9 but
> >> alas, I fear I may never again see a modern day browser or similar
> >> behemoth run on a big endian arch. x86 is a cancer, and I fear it may be
> >> terminal at this point. There needs to be diversity for any ecosystem to
> >> thrive, and ARM certainly isn't the answer. It breaks my heart that
> >> Oracle threw away SPARC. Oh how I yearn the days when nearly every ISP,
> >> telecom and datacenter ran their critical infrastructure on SPARC and/or
> >> Alpha.B  Don't even get me started on SGI and hppa and god forbid, PPC.
> >>
> > I eye-rolled so hard reading this, I think I might be cross-eyed now.
> >
> > Pat
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Enjoy your x86 monoculture and Management Engine overlords.
>

I guess I'll take the bait.

What per se is wrong with ARM?

Pat