Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

Re:Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C by Koshkin on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:19PM (#30461702)

Sure, as my prof once noted, "Why, with the assembler you just need to type more!"

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Re:Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C by microtherion on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:42PM (#30462761)

You must have had one of those progressive professors who did not consider assemblers "a waste of a valuable scientific computing instrument [...] to do clerical work": http://worrydream.com/dbx/

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Re:Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C by reasonabl_human on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:24AM (#30468211)

I love historical anecdotes like this. Goes to show that we should always be questioning our status quo and thinking bigger.

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