There Is No Doubt, Steam Is Coming To Linux! - Polidicks

Steam is the only reason I'm using windows, so I hope that they will release something this year.

[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;21517775]PC, Personal Computer. Commonly referred to machines running on the CISC (x86/x86-64) instruction sets. Name comes off of the IBM-PC series. Making computers cheap for the mainstream (kinda, but still.. cheaper) Windows, Operating system/platform. Operates only on CISC. Linux, Operating system/platform. Operates on anything under the sun, OSIC, RISC, CISC (i.e., sparc, ppc, x86). CISC being most popular out of the ports. Mac OS X, Operating System/Platform. Operates on CISC platform. Unix, Foundation of operating systems and life. Everything features this in one way or another. Windows even features a unix subsystem. Need further explanation, or will that do? Incase you have no idea what im talking about on some of this stuff. (Seems like this would go a few miles above your head) NISC, No Instruction Set Computing OISC, One Instruction Set Computing RISC, Reduced Instruction Set Computing CISC, Complexed Instruction Set Computing PPC, Power PC instruction set (RISC Platform) x86, Intels instruction sets. Features SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, MMX, AMD64, X86-64. Sparc, Suns godly processor's instruction sets. RISC Platform.[/QUOTE] Those terms are pretty much obsolete. Modern x86/x86-64 chips take input as CISC, but convert it to an internal RISC microcode for execution, giving you the code density advantage of CISC with the cost/speed advantage of RISC. NISC and OISC are pretty much theoretical, or at least limited to labs. They have never and will never be manufactured and sold. Linux has not been ported to the only implementation I know of. 'Gratz on confusing the poor guy. More than your bad grammar and spelling did (non-native speaker, right?). Also, Windows (at some point) has been ported to platforms besides x86, like Itanium, ARM, MIPS, Alpha, even PowerPC. Home versions are generally x86-only, though. There's nothing tying Windows to a "CISC" processor besides all the x86 assembly. Porting it to, say, the PowerPC chip (RISC) Macs used to use would be as hard as porting it to Itanium (very CISC). [editline]01:08AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Zeke129;21514089][highlight]W[/highlight]ine [highlight]I[/highlight]s [highlight]N[/highlight]ot an [highlight]E[/highlight]mulator[/QUOTE] Technically, he was right. "An emulator in computer sciences duplicates (provides an emulation of) the functions of one system using a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and appears to be) the first system.". WINE emulates the Windows system calls, including emulating virtual drives. The acronym is only correct so far as it does not emulate the underlying hardware, or even the processes that Windows always has running.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;21518311]Those terms are pretty much obsolete. Modern x86/x86-64 chips take input as CISC, but convert it to an internal RISC microcode for execution, giving you the code density advantage of CISC with the cost/speed advantage of RISC. NISC and OISC are pretty much theoretical, or at least limited to labs. They have never and will never be manufactured and sold. Linux has not been ported to the only implementation I know of. 'Gratz on confusing the poor guy. More than your bad grammar and spelling did (non-native speaker, right?). Also, Windows (at some point) has been ported to platforms besides x86, like Itanium, ARM, MIPS, Alpha, even PowerPC. Home versions are generally x86-only, though. There's nothing tying Windows to a "CISC" processor besides all the x86 assembly. Porting it to, say, the PowerPC chip (RISC) Macs used to use would be as hard as porting it to Itanium (very CISC). [editline]01:08AM[/editline] Technically, he was right. "An emulator in computer sciences duplicates (provides an emulation of) the functions of one system using a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and appears to be) the first system.". WINE emulates the Windows system calls, including emulating virtual drives. The acronym is only correct so far as it does not emulate the underlying hardware, or even the processes that Windows always has running.[/QUOTE] Whoa, calm down there big guy. No need to get your panties in a giant bundle.

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21512746]soon is 4 years ago in Valve time[/QUOTE] Corrected :eng101:

Seriously though it's not happening, it wouldn't be economically viable for Valve. The only reason they're porting it to OS X is because Mac has been able to snag over 10% of the PC market, and they'd make a profit off of hiring programmers to write the client. Linux is just barely holding on to 1% right now, and Linux users aren't exactly known for their shopping sprees. At least for now, Valve probably isn't going to make the investment.