Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...

Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

On 9/19/2024 12:15 PM, BGB wrote:

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.
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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).

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 I remember way back wrt compuserve. :^)
 

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