Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...

Stephen Fuld wrote:

On 9/16/2024 4:12 AM, David Brown wrote:
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With all respect to the regulars here, most people in technical Usenet groups are either old, unusually nerdy, or both.

 I resemble that remark!  :-)

Ditto, probably...
I'm 67 (but not yet retired), I taught myself the Trachtenberg algorithms for mental arithmetic when I was around 12 (was reminded of this last night when I watched Gifted on netflix), I mail ordered what was probably the first Rubik's cube to get to Norway. (And developed three different algorithms to solve it, but I only remember the last one now which I had optimized for simplicity, not speed.)
Those, along with high school chess and orienteering mapping should count as nerdy pursuits, right?
Winning the County Yo-Yo championship would be less so?
Regards to all the regulars here, I do consider many of you friends that I just haven't met yet.
Terje
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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"