Bill Jonas on Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:19:09 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Origin Myth


On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:17:50PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> accept that "That's the way it has to be"? Why do they, in fact,
> transfer that to saying, "Computers are difficult to use"?

Reminds me of something I heard.  Loose quote: "Millions think they hate
computers when they actually hate lousy programmers."

> kernel code; is there still IA32 assembly lurking?).

IA32, and IA64, and Sparc, and Sparc64, and PPC, and...

$ find /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.20/ -name '*.S' |wc -l
    502
$ find /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.20/ -name '*.S' |grep arch |awk -F/ '{print $7}' |sort |uniq |xargs
alpha arm cris i386 ia64 m68k mips mips64 parisc ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh
sparc sparc64 x86_64

(Note that 7 of the 502 files are for drivers (!).)

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