[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Scott Dorsey]

Chris Townley  <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>On 06/09/2023 23:04, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 
>> This is less the case than it used to be.  We have a generation or two of
>> computer people who grew up in a world where they could never see inside
>> the box and who expect not to be able to do so.  This is kind of disturbing
>> if you ask me, but there are a lot of smart younger people who just don't
>> know that transparency is even possible.
>
>But plenty of youngsters play with Raspberry Pis - they don't even come 
>with a box!

No box, but a giant heavyweight operating system, a processor with cache
prefetching and a memory buss slower than the cpu cycle time... there is 
a whole lot of stuff going on with that thing.  It's more or less comparable
to the computer my college had when I was an undergrad.
--scott

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