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From: George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: x86S Specification
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:59:46 -0400
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:03:43 +0000, mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
wrote:

>x86's long term survival depends on things out of AMD's and Intel's
>hands. It depends on high volume access to devices people will buy
>new every year or every other year. A PC is not such a thing, while
>a cell phone seems to be.

Only because the average cell phone gets broken or flooded within a
year.  If people were not so careless, I doubt most would be replaced
so often.

My current phone is over 4 years old and it continues to serve all of
my needs.  Sans damage, the only reason I would choose to replace it
would be when critical apps no longer support the OS version.