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How much firmware is initializing??? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by DudemanJenkins@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Shoot, it did occur to me that might not technically be the right word.

Still, even if you're an engineer in the late 80's, it seems like it would be obvious you need a way for disks to announce themselves in O(1) time. Was it just a limitation of interoperability between vendors or something?