neckbeard

Well, for one those self driving cars have a few Intel Xeons onboard. Those cars need more processing power than your phone can provide.

You might not like it, but free climbing (no scare quotes required) is a defined term. It means climbing without the aid of ropes, except for safety. (Climbing without ropes is usually called free solo.)

Aid climbing means using ropes as aid - you can pull yourself up on ropes (and associated tools).

Quibble about the details as much as you like, it is still the hardest multipitch, bigwall, free climb ever achieved.

Keep reading the thread - Ted explains that decision.

DCA (Direct Cache Access) has been around for a while - DDIO is its replacement on higher end Xeons.

Another important outcome of a successful "hello, world!" is that you find some kind of MVP - Minimal Viable Printf.

Just because it is C doesn't mean you've got a sane libc. Let alone the luxury of a debugger. Just seeing that simple string on the screen/logfile can be a blessed relief.

You should probably check again, but in any case MSVC shouldn't be compared to gcc/icc/clang - it can't even compile code written for a 14 year old language specification (C99), so no sane person should use it for C development these days.

That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however).

More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.