nixCraft 🐧perfect function doesn’t exis- 👇
André van Schoubroeck
Chris [list of emoji]This is a true masterwork of wrongness.
Okay, I just googled it and it's real. I don't know whether to be delighted or horrified.
Also (and sorry for the monologuing), I once witnessed a demo of the original dual-processor BeBox where the presenter showed how to turn off one or the other of the cores from the settings interface. He then turned off both of the cores, and it did exactly what you'd expect. While the computer rebooted, he segued on to how robust the filesystem was.
So, on reflection, this seems pretty on-brand for them.
talpa@suetanvil @GromBeestje @nixCraft I was kind of sad when I was told that they later on removed that feature from BeOS
@suetanvil @nixCraft I recall reading these function were there to test the performance of userland-kernel calls.
That makes sense. My idle speculation was that they were there as the entry points to the hardware or kernel equivalents of debugging printfs, FWIW.