is Apple seriously the sole company making RISC-based UNIX workstations nowadays? with the current state of the shitheap that is Wintel, why aren't there other options?
>>108516317>making RISC-based UNIX workstationsI thought they only made ARM chips
>>108516317locked down bootloader good
>>108516344perhaps i am stretching the definition a bit, but ARM is RISC in nature, no? it's certainly not all that similar to the MIPS/SPARC/PowerPC stuff of the past, but still>>108516348i thought ARM macs let you boot non-Apple operating systems, it's just that the driver support is basically nonexistent. i may be wrong though
>>108516381Oh, I though you were talking about RISC-V
>>108516317qualcomm snapdragon laptops are arm. mediatek chromebooks are arm.>>108516348dumbass, the apple bootloader isn't locked.
>>108516344>I thought they only made ARM chipsAre they? I thought it was Isreali tech. Maybe not originally, but pretty sure they are the ones who actualy owns it. That's how A-series became a thing, no?
>>108516317>>108516381total miyuki marriagebut as to your question>perhaps i am stretching the definition a bit, but ARM is RISC in nature, no?ARM literally stands for Advanced Risc Machine and if you ever programmed in some form of arm assembly it's much closer to Risc V than some x86 code, really fun stuff, definetely risc but I wouldn't really call a locked down macOS environment Unix>i thought ARM macs let you boot non-Apple operating systems, it's just that the driver support is basically nonexistent. i may be wrong thoughyou can but their boot is weirdunfortunately for everyone ever born, just targetting the ISA some computer chip implements during compilation isn't enough to have software running properly on it, since you still have to fuck around with their funky boot sequence and device trees and whatnot and reverse engineer everythingmodern macs dont even use uefi anymoreapart from that you can use computers rocking qualcomm chips, i think there's even a snapdragon thinkpad that came out
>>108516317oracle probably still sells some sort of sun-derived stuff and ibm almost certainly sells the descendants of the workstation line in some capacityother than that idk somebody is going to claim a chromebook is a unix workstation lol
>>108516317just use Linamd
>>108516469apple's P and M core team is in Israeltheir E core team is in Britainthe new M5 Pro/Max have only Israeli designed cores
