Intel and AMD Contemplate Different Replacements for x86 Interrupt Handling

Re:Intel and AMD Contemplate Different Replacements for x86 ... by failwhaleshark on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:27PM (#27397997)

Sssh! "Old = bad" means job security for millions of engineers. We need yet another security attack surface, I mean "improved interrupt handling."

I don't understand why people, engineers of all people, fall for the Dunning-Kruger/NIH/ageism-in-all-teh-things consumerism fallacy that everything else that came before is dumb, unusable, or can always be done better.

Code magically rusts after being exposed to air for 9 months, donja know? If it's not trivially-edited every 2 months, it's a "dead" project.

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Re:Intel and AMD Contemplate Different Replacements for x86 ... by lazide on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:59PM (#27398433)

Part of it I think is that for many people, it's more fun to build something than to maintain something. It's also easier to write code than it is to read it (most of the time).

So why not do the fun and easy thing? Especially if they aren't the one writing the checks!

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