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Comment Re:Cautiously optimisitc? (Score 1) 21

You mean RISC-V or Power ISA v3.1, right? At this point, I'd steer clear of ARM entirely. ARM Holdings went after Broadcom over its architectural license with a vengeance, and that's not the kind of litigation headache anyone wants to deal with long-term. Apple, on the other hand, had a unique advantage thanks to its deep history with ARM—Apple was an original investor when ARM spun out in the early '90s for the Newton project. That early stake translated into a special architectural license for Apple's A-series and M-series chips, something almost no one else can replicate.

Apple's also in a league of its own when it comes to ISA migrations—just look at the transitions from 6502 to 68k, then PowerPC 32/64-bit, then Intel 32/64-bit, then ARM 32/64-bit. Very few companies have the engineering and software resources to pull off that many platform shifts without losing their user base.

For everyone else, RISC-V and Power ISA v3.1 are better long-term bets because they’re not as encumbered by ARM’s licensing minefield. And since AMD64 ISA and Transmeta VLIW / CMS patents are now well over 20 years old, there could be hybrid approaches as well, mixing RISC-V, Power, and x86-64 in new and interesting ways.

Worst-case scenario, if everything goes sideways geopolitically, we’ll all just be scavenging Xeons from decommissioned servers anyway—so maybe all of this debate is moot. But if there's a real future in high-performance computing, Intel (and everyone else) should look beyond ARM’s locked-down ecosystem.

I'd like to see the return of the Intel OverDrive Processor Interposers so that we can breathe new life into old platforms.

Comment Re:Intel fabless? (Score 1) 24

We don't need Intel, the x86-64 ISA is owned by AMD, this is why we call it amd64, and at this point this ISA's patients have expired... yes the Athlon 64 is 21 years old now, so amd64 is effectively an open standard at this point. PowerPC and RISC-V are also open standards, so I'm certain that fabless customers will be able to figure out how to make a core for whatever it is that they want to do at this point.

Submission + - Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (techtarget.com)

dcblogs writes: Despite the demand of employers like Apple
  Amazon, Microsoft
, AT&T
and others, nearly 40% of software engineers preferred only remote roles, and if their employers mandated a return to the office, 21% indicated they would quit immediately, while another 49% said they would start looking for another job, according to Hired's 2023 State of Software Engineers. This report gathered its data from 68,500 software engineering candidates and a survey of more than 1,300 software engineers and 120 talent professionals. Employers open to remote workers "are able to get better-quality talent that's a better fit for the organization," said Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired, a job-matching platform for technology jobs.

Comment Would you like to see the engineering level? (Score 1) 202

Councillor Hamann, the National Electric Code stipulates that all electrical circuits must have an overcurrent protection device to prevent fires, so please go find the electrical breaker box and flip the circuit breaker switch off...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Cool, now how about A/UX and Apple System 8 (Score 1) 81

It would also be nice to have A/UX, Apple System 8, and NeXTSTEP source code, basically everything that led up to the creation of Mac OS X 10, and I think it's definitely about time they port MacOS GUI environment to the Linux kernel... well, at least they better do it before Microsoft beats them to the punch with Windows for Linux 3.11

Comment The law says they can't (Score 1) 64

The American's with Disabilities Act is extremely clear that disabled persons have a right to use accessibility aides, augmentative aides, and auxiliary aides to enable them to participate in society. On it's face, this fundamentally violates my rights, as I would never be able to participate in society without the assistance of a computer.

Comment This is great news (Score 1) 59

This is great news, because now at this point nothing at all can be copyrighted as everything is a derivative of ether myself or AI, I own the copyright for the human genome in source code form, as my birthday is January 2nd, 1979, this is the first day that automatic protection kicks in under the Berne Convention, and I have license this source code under the Apache License 2.0, which also expressly includes a patient license as well. The link below is the source code repository.

https://drive.google.com/drive...

All I ask for is attribution, my name is Lord Nikolas J. Britton.

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