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I find this to be an interesting thing about reading the Torvads–Tanenbaum debate, that both sides seemed to assume without much consideration that the best ins
by Blikkentrekker 5y ago
I find this to be an interesting thing about reading the Torvads–Tanenbaum debate, that both sides seemed to assume without much consideration that the best instruction set, and product in general, would always win.
With instruction sets in particular, there is a very large amount of inertia.
- kjs3 5y agoTo be fair, Tanenbaum is an academic and Torvalds was not that far out of college. It's easy to be idealistic like that when you haven't been jaded by experience in the real world.