{"id":692,"date":"2006-09-20T01:14:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T08:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/974304006fb797c7bb0bfd6f0508cd60"},"modified":"2006-09-20T01:14:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T08:14:42","slug":"x86-convergence-good-for-choice-good-for-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"x86 convergence good for choice, good for developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've got three machines on my desk right now, not one of them is from what you would call a traditional supplier of PC equipment, and yet each one is capable of running an amazing range of operating systems, including those from major competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, two of the machines are from Apple (a Mac Book Pro and an iMac). They are capable of running OS X, Windows, Solaris and Linux. <\/p>\n<p>Also on the desk is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/ultra20\">Sun Ultra 20M2<\/a> that I have on test at the moment (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptopsolaris.com\/?p=21\">Ultra 20M2 Arrived<\/a>). That runs Solaris, Windows and Linux.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=WLXJa7\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=WLXJa7\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/24361287\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got three machines on my desk right now, not one of them is from what you would call a traditional supplier of PC equipment, and yet each one is capable of running an amazing range of operating systems, including those from major competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, two of the machines are from Apple (a Mac Book Pro and an iMac). They are capable of running OS X, Windows, Solaris and Linux. <\/p>\n<p>Also on the desk is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/ultra20\">Sun Ultra 20M2<\/a> that I have on test at the moment (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptopsolaris.com\/?p=21\">Ultra 20M2 Arrived<\/a>). That runs Solaris, Windows and Linux.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=WLXJa7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=WLXJa7\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/24361287\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}