From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net
In article <107n9se$13rjm$3@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley wrote:
>On 2025-08-14, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>> Given that Oracle is a software company with a market cap over 600 B$,
>> then I would think they know something about software engineering.
>
>Size does not equal engineering skill.
This. But in fact, Arne is right in that Oracle _does_ know a
thing or two about software engineering. It's just that their
management doesn't, and doesn't look at things the way that a
software engineer does.
>Anything from Microsoft over the last 25 years.
Eh, I dunno; HyperV, Midori, C# (I guess both C# is older), Rust
adoption, WinDBG, etc, are all pretty cool. Microsoft is flush
with fantastic engineers; .
>Anything from Intel.
Tofino was amazing. But of course, they canceled it.
>x86 is a crap, power hungry architecture that
>should have been consigned to history. Intel just got very very lucky
>and we have all suffered since. For example, Motorola would have been
>a far better starting point.
It's always fun to speculate what might have been had IBM chosen
the 68k over the 8088 for the 5150.
Unfortunately, the 68k was a skunkworks project inside of Moto.
IBM had engineering samples of the 68k in Yorktown Heights
(remember: they had a deep relationship with Motorola at the
time), and IBM was very interested in it for the PC, but when
they went to meet about it, the Moto reps described it as just a
research project and were pushing the 6809 hard as the future
direction of their CPU efforts. But the 8-bit 6809 was neither
feature nor price/performance competitive, even against the
8086, let alone the 68k, around which one could build a Real
Computer, so IBM went a different direction with Intel.
And the rest of us have been suffering since as a result.
- Dan C.
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