mccFeb 13, 2024

- Let's write a web browser.
- In order to write a web browser, we'll first need to write a programming language to write the web browser in.
- We started writing a programming language for web browsers, but our programming language turned out to be so good at writing operating systems that now we're rewriting the Linux kernel in it, and that's taking up enough time we had to put the web browser on hold

Hold on is Rust just the grandest exercise in yak shaving ever committed

Show threadmccFeb 13, 2024
(The actual answer to this question is no, because the Intel x86 chip originally started as a project to build a dumb display terminal to use as a keyboard/monitor frontend for mainframes. They were like hmm, the chip we made for that one dumb terminal is pretty good, could we just sell it by itself?)
Show threadBoba YagaFeb 14, 2024
@mcc With x86 being essentially a CTC architecture, I'm not sure Intel has ever made a successful CPU architecture, and not for lack of trying
Show threadDopeGhoti
@bobayaga @mcc
They even tried with the move to 64-bit, but what is the instruction set we use called? amd64? That must really stick in Intel's craw from time to time. (:
Feb 14, 2024 at 8:13amWeb
Show threadJason FowlerFeb 15, 2024
@DopeGhoti @bobayaga @mcc to the point they refer to it as x64, x86-64, or Intel 64, (not IA-64) but never amd64