Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 04:25 UTC
Let's face it, the most important, truly alternative, hobby operating systems that are somewhat usable today are three: MenuetOS, SkyOS and AtheOS. All three are hobby, open source OSes, written from people who enjoy coding low level programming. Read more about the differences between these OSes and which one you might want to try out.
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Once off the 6502, wrote a bit of 68000 asm for the Amiga.
After that, it went downhill. In Intel Inside world, wrote some 8086 asm, some 386 asm, and even some MMX asm. None of it was as simple and fun as that 6502.
Having gone through Intel training for Itanium... I cannot imagine writing asm code for vliw.
Nor can NEC ;-)
NEC's chief architect Len Tsai launched an astonishing attack on Intel's Itanium processor at Bert McComas' Platforms Conference in San Jose today.
Tsai stunned the room by describing Intel's approach as "brute force", and predicted that learning the new instruction set would take "half a generation". He said NEC - which shipped its Itanic2 servers last week, had not seen any demand for the ten-year old processor.
I better get started learning that stuff, eh? ;-)
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