On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Sean Fao wrote:actually, the real hungry peaple should be the Intel engineering staff who have been working on the first "ia32e" chip... they started working on it let's say 1, 1.5 years ago, maybe 2 or more??? I bet chip design-to-silicon time is not 6 months even for Intel...
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Now, I'm not above complaining about Intel (in fact, the Intel people seemIt must come with the territory ;-). Your message has already made it to
to often think I hate them because I'm apparently the only person who gets
quoted who complains about bad decisions publicly), but at least I try to
avoid complaining before-the-fact ;)
Slashdot so I'm sure this time will be no different.
Yeah, and that's unfair to Intel. They've done the right thing technically, and I applaud them for that, but their marketing people are pricks.
Everybody else is "Intel-compatible" when they make x86 chips. Intel is
apparently a bit too used to _not_ saying "AMD-compatible".
Oh, well. The marketing people are probably proud of their "branding", and screw the confusion.