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Sat Oct 15 15:39:26 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> i'd rather eat -- from the walls.
Sat Oct 15 15:39:20 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> kakobrekla: pre- vs post- 2011 amd is rather like eating old chewing gum from, respectively, the walls, vs the floor, of a shithouse.
Sat Oct 15 15:34:35 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> much better arch than x86 or arm.
Sat Oct 15 15:34:25 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> pick up the phone, buy.
Sat Oct 15 15:34:21 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> kakobrekla: if you wanna buy a sole-source cpu, you can still get sun sparc, it's right there.
Sat Oct 15 15:30:05 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> there is still 'via', but they make very modest, low-power things, definitely not 'workstation'-class.
Sat Oct 15 15:29:18 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> at one point there was another maker of x86, cyrix (my first 486 actually, was one) but long gone.
Sat Oct 15 15:28:42 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> kakobrekla: yer being deliberately obtuse. speaking here of amd's original quasi-independent redesign, in the pc xt days.
Sat Oct 15 15:27:30 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> the amd was and at the same time wasn't, it existed as a duopolistic pet of intel, sorta how crapple was funded by microshit to prevent 'monopolism' for many years.
Sat Oct 15 15:22:17 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> the way, say, z80 was.
Sat Oct 15 15:21:56 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> funkenstein_: the important aspect is that it was never independently redesigned.
Sat Oct 15 15:21:30 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> the 'talos' scamware definitely isn't news, it was discussed here year+ ago.
Sat Oct 15 15:20:42 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> even the fabled 'arm' exists in 1,001 photo-clones of ONE british-supplied design.
Sat Oct 15 15:20:16 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> there isn't, notice, a multi-source workstation cpu.
Sat Oct 15 15:20:00 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> very similar.
Sat Oct 15 15:19:07 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> fact remains, sole-source chip - you are at the mercy of the ONE vendor.
Sat Oct 15 15:16:33 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> (btw coreboot hasn't worked with intel since... '09, or with post-'11 amd)
Sat Oct 15 15:16:01 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> kakobrekla: i dun have an intel
Sat Oct 15 15:15:47 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> used to.
Sat Oct 15 15:15:13 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> 'open' my arse.