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I was one of those guys who cherish and love those manuals. To the extend that years later, I worked for Intel. Just like you are pointing, that program shaped lives.
When? It is not a label it had an etched in thing on it!
By the way - I recommend everyone to read Intel manuals. Volumes 1 and 3 of the SDM are very good computer architecture books - any software engineer can learn a lot from them.
print documentation is so important
AMD should start doing this as one final dunk before Intel sinks
This isn’t dumb lol it’s exactly what happens at Microsoft and Google
capitalism is alienating your customers, especially the loyal ones, to increase your bottom line then pretend it's a result of productivity or ingenuity
Confirmo. Cuando me dijeron que Intel mandaba gratis sus manuales impresos tampoco lo creí hasta que encontré uno en una biblioteca.
Hoy ya no te los mandan ni pagando. Imprimir el manual de Pentium III me costó carísimo. Al menos los PDF todavia los puedes descargar gratis.
no they just haven't made a cpu worth buying since 2019 lol
Jack Welch and his consequences have been a disaster to American business. The trade for short term profit over long term growth has been the central cause of the "enshittification" of everything.
That ethos can be seen in every industry and it's sickening.
"Some middle manager killed it, and probably got a promotion" is being promptly added to my repertoire of concise political motivations.
No one values being iconic anymore...
Yeah this sounds about right, I know someone in college who had a similar experience, sad to hear they stopped caring about people
Aesthetics are key to people’s decisions. Just as most of our major life choices, e.g. uni, study courses, jobs, are driven by artistic allure. (My own fields of study, for example, were the outcome of HK movies, Zen paintings, and Japanese manga consumption.)
Proliferation of knowledge, unimpeded, uncensored, is the greatest good the world ahs brought forth. It must not be lost. It must always be exalted. It must never be taken over by Government nor Monopoly.
Don't let dumb accountants run your business