[PLUG] Debian experts?

Kris krisa at subtend.net
Sun Feb 25 22:16:44 UTC 2007


Ed Sawicki wrote:
> As an assembly language programmer, I hear you. Intel's
> early machines were ridiculous - I was using the Motorola
> and TI processors when IBM chose the Intel crap for the
> PC. What a mistake. I can only imagine what would have
> happened if IBM chose the TI 9900 processor instead. We
> would have benefited from its fast context switching and
> probably had VM technology in small computer operating
> systems decades earlier.

And a lot more tech jobs in Texas.  What would Oregon have been like
without it's Silicon Forest(tm)?

Would they have called them "yellow badges" instead of green?

-- 
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