@pistolero @Machismo @Nozakero @surk... > If you produce the next shit from the ground up, people will complain that it doesn't have a web browser, so you're fucked if you're trying for consumers as a source.
This is the story of Loongson. When the 2F dropped, the government goons bankrolling Lemote via Chinese Academy of Sciences whined because it didn't have QQ and Tencent wouldn't port it.
Gotta have QQ, otherwise you can't do the important political work of paying camwhores in QQ coins.
@1f737851 @pistolero @Machismo @Nozakero
Give me a minute, I'm gonna port QQ to plan9.
@surk... @pistolero @Machismo @Nozakero Good luck. Tencent has always been pretty evil. They ban the accounts of people who connect to the server through alternative clients.
There used to be a few implementations of QQ that worked for exchanging messages, but the actual money functions and dumb shit like QQ Show were all Windows only.
Even the Linux compatibility client Tencent produced one time after a sizable government grant wouldn't do it.
@pistolero @Machismo @Nozakero @surk... So Zhang Fuxin was bullied into bolting on the entire X86 instruction set on a formerly MIPS3 compatible RISC chip that had its own SIMD additions. Then they forked QEMU to pass all the X86 opcodes directly through virtualization.
The result was the Loongson 3 series: dog shit CPUs that failed at being X86 and failed at the concept of RISC by having more instructions than every big instruction chip.
Retardation abounds in IT.
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