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Strange move to name a security focused embedded programming language the same thing as Apple's security processor in the 2016/2017 MacBook Pro. https://applei
by wlesieutre 7y ago
Strange move to name a security focused embedded programming language the same thing as Apple's security processor in the 2016/2017 MacBook Pro.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/10/28/examined-the-new-macbook-pro-touch-bar-and-apples-t1-authentication-chip https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/10/28/examined-the-new-...
Names are hard I guess. But if you're going to pick a [letter][number] name it'd be hard to come up with one that has a worse naming collision.
Apple's moved on to T2 in their current machines, so beyond "Isn't that Apple's old security chip?" questions it probably won't run into much overlap, but first thought was "is this Apple releasing something related to the T1 chip?"
- solarkraft 7y agoThe down votes are unjustified. I expected to see a guide on programming the T1 chip.
- deno 7y agoThe previous version of the language was called “T0” and used for BearSSL. They were first, not Apple.
- wlesieutre 7y ago"T" beats it when you search for T0 programming language on google, so I don't think that was a good idea either. As far as I can tell T0 doesn't exist anywhere online, unless I'm confused and it's actually this Scheme dialect from 1982 and T0 is a specific version number under that?