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In article <3111@cirrusl.UUCP> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.COM> writes:
>In <8283@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:
>>RISC is 2 years ahead in hardware speed, but
>>it is AT LEAST 2 years behind in applications base...
>Are vendors still writing software targeted to specific CPUs?  Why?

I think it's more the case that everything is behind DOS.  Also, various
vendors add things to their systems which cause incompatabilities.  For
example, SCO XENIX and UNIX have some ioctl's on the console which don't
exist under other vendors' versions.  As a result, if an application was
written under sco *nix, then it would take some (possibly non-trivial) work
to port it to another version of *nix.

But it's mostly a software issue, not hardware.  More accurately, it's a
*system* issue.

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