8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
1:35 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>>There are, unfortunaely, very few books that
>>actually explain how the CPU
>>works. Most introductory hardware books explain
>>things like the AND and
>>OR gats and flip-flops (don't worry if these terms
>>mean nothing to you,
>>they're just the basic building blocks of computer
>>circuits), and then
>>tell you the CPU exists. It's almost as if the CPU
>>runs on some kind of
>>magic.
>>
CPUs run on magic smoke. When something electrical happens that causes
the CPU case to break, you can witness this magic smoke escape and the
CPU sumallarly stops working.
--
The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks.
-- Linus Torvalds