From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] tech writer humor
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:26:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimmP7C8yEmifNNbmBT772fBfWOFokVG6ArOvF+x@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikq9czPzRVr96ZbEFP-c7r9ZJupSwND4Jfm1oiC@mail.gmail.com>
2011/2/22 ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:
> let me ask the question again. I know what the difference between APIC
> and ACPI means.
>
> Why is it that they don't think anyone needs that register any more?
> What are they suggesting people use instead?
When I first read it, I thought it was funny. But then I realized it
didn't make much sense and was likely written by someone who was
confused by conflating multiple issues. Remember when the Pentium III
came out with the serial number in the cpuid instruction and people
went batshit insane because you could use it to track individual
computers? I'm wondering if that has any bearing on this -- but it's
almost exactly the opposite. It'd be insanely useful for software
licensing but the outcry made it basically a useless instruction. I
wonder if a tech writer saw a bunch of different stuff, did some
googling, and confused him / herself to death.
--dho
> ron
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-22 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-22 1:45 erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 17:53 ` ron minnich
2011-02-22 18:22 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 19:20 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 20:09 ` ron minnich
2011-02-22 20:26 ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2011-02-22 20:27 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 20:46 ` Nemo
2011-02-22 20:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-22 20:54 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 20:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-22 21:02 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 21:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-23 17:26 ` ron minnich
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