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Is x86 overrated?
| um what... i'm far from fammiliar with the terms but i'm fairly sure you're confusing instruction set architecture with multiprocessor architecture, also again could be wildly wrong but i'm also fairly sure MCM processors and workstation boards both count as multiprocessor, and both have been around for a while MCM gaining popularity
| Ehm... multiprocessor systems can contain x86/arm processors... So those things aren't excluding each other. You can even go a step further and create a cluster computer from (x86) multiprocessor systems. That's how most "supercomputers" are constructed.
| x86 and ARM are instruction set archs (ISA), which are separate from multi-processor archs...
>tl;dr we'll always need to be able to tell the CPU(s) how tf to execute instructions :p
now as a system designer, you could have X similar cores on a processor, or X similar processors or X separate ones in the same computer (or across multiple computers like baeaa2 says)
>src: M.S. in CS
| Look guys, you nerds just keep doing your fancy computer shit, and the retards on our end get the repeatedly upgraded products, yeah?
| I did study partically IT on high school but now i study media (in the meaning as theory of information/communication)
So i can be wrong, and i can miss things, but if i understand, it should have be little bit similar for example to cell cores from PS3 which was in times of release pretty powerful
x86 are having monopoly in desktop and arm on mobile devices.. but i'm thinking if this architecture shouldn't have be changed (i'm op btw)
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Unfortunately customers often rather believe in marketing lies instead of nerds knowledge...
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x86 have no monopoly. It's an (mostly open) instruction set shared by most common processors. But it's totally possible to port software (written in high languages) to other architectures as long you have their programm code and a suitable compiler/interpreter/vm.
For instance you could install gnu/linux or FreeBSD on your ps3, since it's based on the (equally mostly open) "cell" architecture.
Other hardware components cause way more compatibility problems than CPUs.
| However, OP you are right with the thread title. x86 IS overrated. And yes, the Cell processor architecture (like the PS3 uses) is in many cases superior. However you shouldn't forget that economical circumstances also are relevant. Sometimes a technological inferior design has advantages for mass production. And there are business models that are based on restricting users access to (?their?) products. E.g. The PS3s 3rd party OS support was removed through a firmware upgrade.
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| Today i had informally really rich subject about Cybersecurity but it was moved from protocols to architectures..
And we did get to this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessor_system_architecture
Do you think that it would be better than x86/arm? It was sounds honestly really awesome, but i'm curious if would users see difference if it did become standart