Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 10:47:57 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 02/12/2024 23:43, John Ames wrote:

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 02:41:14 -0500 "186282@ud0s4.net"
<186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
 

Note though ... almost NO compu-geeks these days know ASM.

 
Very much depends on the communities you hang out in. It's certainly
nowhere near as ubiquitous as it used to be, but quite a few geeks out
there at least dabble with it for fun.
 

I have a friend who has to use it to access certain aspects of the
latest processors.
 
I haven't used in in years...

The last time I used it was to test if AMD processors had some of the
instructions Intel had implemented. AMD caught up but some of the Athlon
processors didn't have the SSE instructions.

Interesting how things worked out. Intel's CEO quit Sunday rather
unexpectedly. He's out completely. Losing a few billion will do that to
you.