david@ztivax.UUCP (06/12/86)
Certainly the problems with the original Motorola brain-damaged
software had to be an important reason for IBM to choose Intel with
their brain-damaged hardware. However, I think it was a marketing coup
for Intel on all fronts. The Intel software I have seen is like their
hardware: pure rubbish with glossy brochures to make it seem the
greatest thing since $5 whores.
I am very glad to hear of the developments at MIPS on their RISC chip
set. It sounds like they are producing a very good software
development environment for their very good chip set. (Or, has John
Massey studied Computer Science on Madison Avenue also? :-) Basically,
MIPS is offering the UNIX we all know and love, with a compiler and
assembler which both perform super-duper-deluxe optimization for their
pipelined RISC.
Will someone out there (IBM? DEC? I don't care) save us from IBM-PC
brain-death with a PC family based on such a beast as the MIPS
architecture? Perhaps that's what the RT PC will become. Hopefully
the software developers will then use the good RISC compilers instead
of hand coded assembler, so we will all be able to take advantages in
new technology, instread of staying traped in the Pleasure Chamber of
the Marquis de Intel-Brain-Death!!! Heh heh heh ....
Anything but brain-damage, please!
P.S. I think that Intel stock is good to own: they have been so
sucessful with such utterly horrible, brain-{damaged,dead}, disgusting,
*&%$&!%@$ rubbish, that if they ever make something even only
moderately stupid, they will take over the Universe!
P.P.S. What happens to all the Intel uProcessor programmers after
they destroy their mental capacity? I hope Silicon Valley has some
special mental hospitals for them. There must be quite a few by now.