-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2018-01-06 at 07:40 -0800, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 01/06/2018 05:11 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Besides, I now consider open sourced CPUs a very interesting idea. Not trusting Intel anymore. Never.
I haven't trusted them since their FPU bug coverup!
Yes, an open-sourced CPU design would be great. Perhaps Sun's SPARC could be used as a starting point? I believe they open-sourced it before they were subsumed by Oracle.
But this is a company that is very happy to litigate, so nobody wanted to risk it. At least, this is what one of the recent articles I read said. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpSZyAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WqmACfdILltZlrnPnnF4Me/wKWph2q hGsAn2asp3FV0syD1bWC5tbhaVkyUVNW =4CV0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----