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   Ignas Kiela (ignaloidas@not.acu.lt)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 18:38:30 JST Ignas Kiela

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   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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   • Janne Moren
   • Palaiologos

   @kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be @niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @jannem@fosstodon.org well of course it is. It's the same reason a language as bad as C is still alive. Once stuff gets used widely, it's hard to get rid of it without external forces forcing to stop using it (like happens for chemicals and regulations).

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     Palaiologos (kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 18:38:31 JST Palaiologos

     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • Janne Moren
     @niconiconi @lanodan @ignaloidas @jannem this is largely a self-fulfilling prophecy: IBM PC with x86 and not m68k happened almost by _pure chance_. because people started using x86 we started getting more and more software to run on it, more manufacturers (Cyrix, AMD), then finally x86_64. at no point in its life x86 was "technologically superior", rather, it always has been lucky for history and everything that came after was a result of this.