@FailurePersonified

> There was also a lot of interest in hobbyist spaces for parallel computing as well as other neat things like RISC.

Industry kind of expected that MIPS and SPARC were going to stay where they were, no one expected x86 to eat the world. Coming into the 90s, it was m68k and then all the Serious Business computing was RISC.

> Also fuck Apple for leaving PowerPC to die,

IBM continues get a lot of mileage out of it with Blue Gene et al, it's just not something people put on the desktop. Looks like, per https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2023/11/ , it's EPYC, Xeon, Xeon, A64FX, EPYC, Xeon, and then #7 is a POWER9.