"People called the IO processor "the real OS" because they had never seen dedicated I/O processors before." I didn't know that. That's funny as it's the confus

"People called the IO processor "the real OS" because they had never seen dedicated I/O processors before." I didn't know that. That's funny as it's the confusion I'd expect where the old wisdom of I/O processors in non-server stuff was lost for a few generations. Then, the new one sees them to wonder if it's an extra core for apps, the OS, or whatever.