[TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Fri Jun 29 00:40:17 AEST 2018


On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:15:38AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> And the Market spoke.  And shortly thereafter, Java fell under the
> control of Oracle....  And Intel would proceed to further dominate the
> landscape.

Yep.  Lots of cpus are nice when doing a parallel make but there is 
always some task that just uses one cpu.  And then you want the fastest
one you can get.  Lots of wimpy cpus is just, um, wimpy.



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