Post #915322
2025-01-07 18:14 UTC
any vendor incorporated after 1983 can't design hardware, all they know is NDA, market segmentation, errata, be acquired, make hot chip, and lie
Replies (6)
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@domi@donotsta.re 2025-01-07 18:15
@mwk you know, vendors incorporated before 1983 aren’t much better either. especially in the “hot chip” department
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@njsg@social.sdf.org 2025-01-07 18:20
@mwk Is there a Broadcom exception to that rule? Or are their WLAN NICs designed elsewhere?
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@MeiOokami@bark.lgbt 2025-01-07 18:29
@mwk Is the hot chip just an over driven mosfet they forgot to put a heatsink on?
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@kim@vk5fj.net 2025-01-07 19:08
@mwk was there a trigger in or before 1983? That would be post IBM PC launch, does the "open design" PC have anything to do with that?
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@Antiroo@yiff.life 2025-01-08 07:32
@mwk unsure if you are talking about computer vendors or snack food vendors....
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@m3t00@app.wafrn.net 2026-03-10 03:08
@mwk@donotsta.re in 2008 a software salesman kept bugging me. sent him a version of 'death of a software salesman' he seemed offended but quit bugging me so w/e.