Why do Slashdot readers dislike Intel, please?
I do not understand.
If I run Debian at home, if I have been programming in assembly language twenty years
(beginning even on the Z-80 and the 6502), if I
hold a master's degree in electrical engineering,
if I once even owned an Amiga,
then am I qualified to ask the question?
I am willing to admit that I have neither ever
programmed the Alpha nor the Sparc. Maybe those
are better processors; I wouldn't know.
But the i386 series
of chips seems tremendous to me. I like these
Intel chips. I like even better the fabulous
library of in-depth technical documentation
Intel posts up for our use on its FTP server.
Somebody in free-softwaredom doesn't like
Intel. If you can and would explain the
matter to me, I would certainly appreciate it.
I simply cannot tell if the dislike of Intel is
because
Intel makes bad chips, but I'm too dumb
to realize it,
Intel is big,
Intel is intimately associated with
Microsoft (which indeed is evil) in someone's
mind,
some folks do not appreciate the magnitude
of Intel's task in developing fast new processors
which remain backward-compatible with a 25-year
running legacy,
Intel, unlike AMD, presents a consistent professional businesslike image,
the Intel-bashers have never written an
assembly language program and have no idea what
they're talking about,
Intel is imperfect and occasionally makes
mistakes, or
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Why do Slashdot readers dislike Intel, please? I do not understand.
If I run Debian at home, if I have been programming in assembly language twenty years (beginning even on the Z-80 and the 6502), if I hold a master's degree in electrical engineering, if I once even owned an Amiga, then am I qualified to ask the question? I am willing to admit that I have neither ever programmed the Alpha nor the Sparc. Maybe those are better processors; I wouldn't know. But the i386 series of chips seems tremendous to me. I like these Intel chips. I like even better the fabulous library of in-depth technical documentation Intel posts up for our use on its FTP server.
Somebody in free-softwaredom doesn't like Intel. If you can and would explain the matter to me, I would certainly appreciate it. I simply cannot tell if the dislike of Intel is because
Please explain. Thanks.