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		ChuckNorris89 on March 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Asahi Linux alpha release Yeah, before X86 took the performance crown in the '90 most of EDA was done on mainframes or PowerPC workstations running UNIX, including SGI.

_ph_ on March 19, 2022 [–]

In professional environments, x86 really took over only in the mid-2000s, especially with the Opteron. Whether x86 ever took the performance crown is debatable, if you consider the big PowerPCs IBM still sells.

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