Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...

On 9/19/2024 2:04 AM, Robert Finch wrote:

On 2024-09-18 10:30 p.m., BGB wrote:

On 9/18/2024 2:29 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

On 9/18/2024 1:13 AM, David Brown wrote:

On 17/09/2024 20:18, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:32:35 +0000, Bill Findlay wrote:
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On 17 Sep 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote
(in article<jwvmsk6i6uc.fsf-monnier+comp.arch@gnu.org>):
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With all respect to the regulars here, most people in technical Usenet
groups are either old, unusually nerdy, or both.

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I plead guilty to nerdy, but as for old, I'm still 27 (and that's been
true for more than 20 years).
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Stefan

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Hi Stefan!
At least equally nerdy, I should think, but 50 years older.
(Older, not old!)

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At 71 real years old I still operate as if I were <let's say> 21.

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You are not 71, you are merely 0x47 :-)
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LOL! :^)

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Not going to say my exact age, but if I wrote my age in hex I could almost try to pass myself off as an early Zoomer (rather than as a millennial...).
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I think I am early GenX. 59 and still learning loads of stuff.
Old enough to remember tube TVs and radios. Transistorized pocket radio were a big thing.
 

In my case, my childhood was mostly in the era of Win 3.x and Win 9x PCs, and early dial-up internet (unlike most Zoomers, I remember a time before YouTube).
Also, when I was in middle and high-school, no smartphones, and people having cellphones in school was actually a bit of a novelty (at the time, mostly the clam-shell flip-phone design; and typing texts involved an elaborate ritual on the numeric keys).
One PC game I played a lot during high-school was Half-Life. It was essentially running a modified Quake engine. Unlike Quake though, generally it was using a hi-color renderer internally and each texture could have its own color palette (though still nominally 256-color).
When I was in elementary school, Doom was popular, had mostly played games like this at the time (well, and Heretic, Hexen, Diablo, etc). There were FMV games, but didn't usually play them as most didn't seem very interesting and kinda terrible.
There were PCs in the classrooms, generally running MS-DOS and with mostly edutainment games.
Did a few times encounter Apple II computers or similar, but usually off in a back closet somewhere. Did encounter one class with Macs in middle school, but otherwise didn't encounter any.
Started writing some stuff, but decided to leave it out.
Tough, a partial thing I have noticed is that most of the "technically oriented" content on YouTube seems to be dominated by Gen X people.
By the time of late Gen Y, it fades somewhat.
There is seemingly very little science or technology oriented content from Gen Z.
Seemingly, from late Gen Y / early Gen Z, seemingly almost seeing more "math and physics nerd" content than "computer nerd" content (and, much past early Z, not a whole lot in general).
Though, some of the more "cut and dry technically oriented content" seems to be from Boomers (eg, "Adrien's Digital Basement" and similar, like a lot of soldering PCBs and fixing old floppy drives and similar).
So, seemingly:
   Boomer:
     Hey, watch as I solder / repair stuff.
     Large/rare/old computer hardware and electronics.
     Also more likely to talk about cars,
       or have easy access to a mill or lathe.
   Gen X:
     Nostalgia bait, C64s, Apples / Macs, some soldering/repair
     Lots of 1980s era consumer electronics.
   Early Gen Y:
     Imma install lots of weird crap in this PC,
       and talk about old games / consoles and similar.
     Focus mostly on 1990s and early 2000s stuff.
   Late Gen Y:
     Imma try to make improvised rocket nozzles on my 3D printer;
     Or, 3D print lots of weird improvised computer fans / ...;
     Or, talk about math and physics.
   Early Gen Z:
     Mostly math/physics and historical stuff;
     If they talk about programming / computers,
       usually it is in the context of something else,
       and usually they are using Python or similar...
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