Re: Denial of denial of service

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From: David Cantrell
Subject: Re: Denial of denial of service
Date: 17:53 on 29 Jan 2007
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:35:46PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2007-01-29 18:05]:
> > x86 isn't RISC, it's not really CISC either. It's more like a
> > snapshot of 1976 state-of-the-art in micros with 50,000 volts
> > pumped through it. 
> That's a euphemism. x86 is... hell, it's not even wrong. In its
> perversion it quite simply defies description.

Can you imagine the 1976 state-of-the-art in anything else being
perpetrated thirty years later?  Enormous wing collars?  Flares?  Yes,
those would be indescribably perverted too.

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David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

What profiteth a man, if he win a flame war, yet lose his cool?

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