Charlie Stross on Nostr: Oh God and by God I mean Cthulhu, this is the time line in which the Intel Itanium ...
Oh God and by God I mean Cthulhu, this is the time line in which the Intel Itanium didn't fail, Macs still run on Power architecture (Apple was eventually acquired by IBM), and Microsoft OS/2 4.0 runs everywhere on MIPS, Alpha, and SPARC workstations. Linux is nearly extinct thanks to restrictive embrace-and-extinguish commercial bootloader licensing terms ...
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