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Or those annoying nagging "well, what if I don't have an X86_64 CPU that was made in the last five years?", to which obviously our response should be: "get diff
by DaSHacka 1y ago
Or those annoying nagging "well, what if I don't have an X86_64 CPU that was made in the last five years?", to which obviously our response should be: "get different hardware LOL, closedwontfix"
- IshKebab 1y agoNo, supporting 5 year old mainstream hardware is a very reasonable thing to do. Supporting 20 year old hardware that barely anyone used even when it was new is not.
- tialaramex 1y agoIndeed. Four targets are identified as potentially affected: alpha, hppa, m68k and sh4 To be fair, lots of people did use Motorola 68xxx CPUs when those were new, it's just that it was 40+ years ago in products like the Commodore Amiga. The SH4 is most popularly connected to the Dreamcast, Sega's video game console from back when Sega made video game consoles. The Alpha and PA Risc were seen in relatively recent and more conventional hardware, but in much tinier numbers, and when I say relatively I mean early this century, these are not products anybody bought five years ago, and when they were on sale they were niche products for a niche which in practical terms was eaten by Microsoft.
- julian-klode 1y agoAlpha and PA Risc where the predecessors of Itanium fwiw if you want to feel old in an easy to understand way.
- NewsaHackO 1y agoIs your point that rust doesn't run on a computer built in 2020?
- DaSHacka 1y agoNo, but that if it did not, I am not so sure that would even be seen as a problem.
- NewsaHackO 1y ago[flagged]
- DaSHacka 1y agoFeel free to enlighten me. Nothing I have seen thus far indicates anything to the contrary.
- iknowstuff 1y agoSpend more effort on looking before posting then!
- DaSHacka 1y agoI'm not gonna waste effort on a fool's errand. So far, neither claim has been backed up whatsoever. It's obviously more likely it's just fans of the language with a knee-jerk reaction of "ackshully you're totally definetely wrong, but uh... don't ask me how, you just are" than legitimate talking points.
- iknowstuff 1y agostay ignant then, keep making stupid claims and asking people to correct them lol
- DaSHacka 1y ago> stay ignant then, keep making stupid claims and asking people to correct them lol It aint stupid if its the truth lol Feel free to stay "ignant" though, making stupid claims and refusing to back them up when asked.
- testdelacc1 1y agoHas Linux dropped support for older x86 CPUs?
- littlestymaar 1y agoRust hasn't either AFAIK.
- gpm 1y agoYeah, in... late 2012 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/12/292 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/12/292