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Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

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Re: Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

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Post by aphantastic »

withinboredom wrote: post #44
aphantastic wrote: post #27

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Indeed. A lady at a bar in Portland once inquired what I thought humanity’s most advanced technological achievement was, after a slight pause I said the modern microprocessor. She laughed in my face at the suggestion. But when I pressed her for an answer of her own, she refueled to say, instead would only insist that my answer was ridiculous. Odd lady.

Haha. I suppose it would be: language. Without it, nothing else is possible.

Sure! Another way you might take it is that the pointy stick is the most advanced: it started out before language, and has had considerably more effort put into modernization.

What’s weird is asking the question and just nope-ing out of the resulting conversation.

Re: Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

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rasz wrote: post #49
rhelz wrote: post #48

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I could geeze all day, like the geezer I am, with stories about the good old days :-) In school, your programming exercises are well-defined, small, and can be completed in a few days. First day of my internship with Intel: "Here is a 50,000-line program somebody has been working on for 8 months. But it's too slow, we need to you speed it up by 10x before the summer ends." LMAO. But I figured out how to do even bette…

>became harder and harder to compete with outside vendors like Cadence and Synopsis. Both Synopsys and Cadence exists because of the work Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and his students at Berkeley did for Intel to enable synthesis and automatic layout of 386. He was co-founder of both :)

Wow, in that case he's done more to advance Moore's law than almost anybody.

Re: Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

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rhelz wrote: post #52
rasz wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>became harder and harder to compete with outside vendors like Cadence and Synopsis. Both Synopsys and Cadence exists because of the work Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and his students at Berkeley did for Intel to enable synthesis and automatic layout of 386. He was co-founder of both :)

Wow, in that case he's done more to advance Moore's law than almost anybody.

I think that title should go to Lynn Conway. RIP :(

Re: Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

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Post by withinboredom »

aphantastic wrote: post #51
withinboredom wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha. I suppose it would be: language. Without it, nothing else is possible.

Sure! Another way you might take it is that the pointy stick is the most advanced: it started out before language, and has had considerably more effort put into modernization. What’s weird is asking the question and just nope-ing out of the resulting conversation.

I suppose when you answered with a "digital technology" they could have realized you weren't the right person for them. Now that I think about it, it's a great filtering conversation for a date.
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