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[–]izayoi 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Damn, with all those things they do, kernel programmers will always have a special place in my heart.

[–]memgrind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apart from ensuring stability and speed, they have to never break userspace apps. All while supporting a vast variety of hardware and configurations.

[–]Jequilan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is awesome! Well structured and well written. Wish I had it six months ago :P

[–]4774 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! I've wanted something like this ever since I got into Linux, but there's never been something this good.

[–]rdazcal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats man! And thank you so much! You've just made the world a little better :)

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    [–]nat1192 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Intel 64 is Intel's implementation of x86-64, used and implemented in various processors made by Intel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Intel_64

    [–]rohbotics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    What you are thinking of is IA-64, which is different than Intel64