🚀 go-pugleaf

> < >< <chismdm@earthlink.net> wrote:
> < >< 
> < >< > 
> < >< > \>AMD has started designing their chips since the K5.
> < >< >  Yeah - after Intel designed and released an instruction set.
> < >< > 
> < >< > >Not only do they have to
> < >< > >do that, they have to take into consideration compatibility with
intel
> < >< > >standards.
> < >< > 
> < >< > Its a lot easier to design a chip to a spec then to come up with a
design
> < >< > from scratch.
> < >< 
> < >< Have you done either?  I suggest that you are wrong.  It is 
> < >< *very* difficult to clone a chip with all of it's "strangeness" 
> < >< and make it better.  There are many gotchas that aren't in the 
> < >< specs.  In fact there are things in "errata" that may not be 
> < >< known to the cloner.  Clean rooom and all.
> < >
> < >Who gives a fuck? So what if one chip was harder to make than another,
it has no 
> < >affect on whether you should buy it or not.
> < 
> < OK, who's job was it to watch the assholes?  It appears this one has
> < wandered in.
> 
> It's ok, the exit's right over there, just wander back on out.
> 

damn right who gives a damn?

not only is it hard to clone, but they have to play footsies with a bunch
of intel patents, and don't even tell that's not a bitch, they have to make
it compatible and at the same time make it different, you try finding a
different way to wash your clothes that is not only different, but better
faster and gets em cleaner.