Re: "...[Acorn] imploded..."
" Imagine developing for mobile/embedded platforms if you didn't have a hideous x86 box doing the grunt work of compiling all the tools and code for the target?"
If there was any doubt where you were coming from, it's clear now. And it's not a good place.
Lots of people don't have to *imagine* not using "hideous x86 box grunt work of compiling all the tools and code for the target". Lots of people have done it, yea even unto the days of PDP11s. There are still people using stuff other than x86 too, but the typical IT department's dependence on x86 means there aren't as many cross-tool setups on Unix, VMS, etc, as there used to be.
If x86 is so brilliant in general, why is it near invisible outside the IT department?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
