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This reminds me the time when Linus said that linux will be hard to port to other architectures, since it is tightly coupled with the 386 architecture...
by diffuse_l 3y ago
This reminds me the time when Linus said that linux will be hard to port to other architectures, since it is tightly coupled with the 386 architecture...
- seanw444 3y agoCertainly would've been less easy without large community contributions.
- wang_li 3y agoJust shows that he didn’t have much knowledge of other platforms or didn’t have much vision about where his project would go. Fact is if you squint enough every modern system looks like a VAX. The same abstractions fit nearly every architecture.
- sumtechguy 3y agoAt the time he said that he was not wrong. There were huge chunks of .s files that did interesting asm things.