Charlie Stross
"the rot set in when Paul Otellini replaced Craig Barrett as CEO way back in 2005. Barrett had a PhD in materials science from Stanford. Otellini was an economics grad with an MBA. Put simply, sales replaced engineering at the top of Intel."
TLDR: Intel is suffering from Boeing disease.
https://hachyderm.io/@stevel/112903283602509052
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
@cstross Almost every time the beancounters take over, things go wrong. Because they can count everything, they think they know everything. As the old adage says, they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Charlie Stross
@KimSJ But the point is, they *can't* count everything. There are things that they *don't know* should be counted, and things that can't be counted at all because they're not amenable to enumeration, or require multidimensional quantification that's not cost-effective to collect, or because quantifying something is politically embarrassing (eg. dissatisfaction with the bureaucracy). And when things go uncounted, bureaucrats ignore them.
Kancept
@darthsandwich @faraiwe @cstross @stevel we never forget about BeOS around here and its brought up at least once a week. That and the good old days of DIP switches and knowing where the hell things are addressed.
Darth Sandwich 🏳️🌈
BeOS! Oh that feels like a fantasy within a dream I've long forgotten.
Re: RISC I recall learning assembly for both a risc chip and x86 and loving the elegance of the former. That was long ago of course and I'm sure a ton of things have changed.
faraiwe
My favorite remark regarding OS and chip agnosticism was "it's dark inside the box". GOOD, thoughtfully written code ought to result in similar environment for the user, across versions (hardware limitations respected) of software (NOT "APPS", software, anyone who calls *every* software "apps" needs to go to the same hell Jobs is in).
The resurgence of RISC (V) processors, is VERY interesting, but users may be wary, if only because habit and the bumps on the road of portability and chip manufacturing resources. Let's see where this goes.
I miss DEC Alpha, and PowerPCs... And BeOS. sigh.
Fazal Majid
@cstross as an engineer, the “engineer good, MBA bad” mantra assuages my ego, but it’s oversimplified. Harry Stonecipher, who instilled the rot into Boeing, had a STEM background.
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