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Re:The first rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t tell anyone you’... by CorrectHorseBat on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:40AM (#33318148)
If that makes your skin crawl, how would you feel like if I told you it's very likely that you a have a chip made with Excel in your pocket?
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Re:The first rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t tell anyone you’... by thfuran on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:56AM (#33318387)
I would tell you that I don't even know what it means for a chip to be made with excel and ask you to leave before you ruin that.
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Re:The first rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t tell anyone you’... by dahart on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:08PM (#33318542)
Can confirm parent’s comment; some hardware design teams run on Excel, for a variety of core planning activities. They aren’t drawing traces in Excel, but they are designing pipeline scheduling and doing Tetris to fit all the reusable different compute units together, among other things.
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