Boeing's only answer to the A220 was to get the US administration to impose a 220% import tarif on it. It didn't even compete with Boeing models. Fuck Boeing.
Why, though? I am just wondering how it takes effect. The carriers often lease the planes from special-purpose entities. If such an entity is based in Liberia, where does the tariff apply?
No idea if the POSIX subsystem used NTFS or some other filesystem but if it was NTFS it probably just used the same reparse data buffer. It's just that Windows only added a symlink buffer structure in Vista/2008. You can manually use the same data buffer in older Windows versions it just won't know what to do with them just like all the other reparse data structures.
The subsystem in question would be the one to handle the logic for the syscall. So the POSIX subsystem would use the reparse data buffer as needed. It's just that the Win32 subsystem added its own symlink one in Vista/2008.
This is all a guess, the POSIX subsystems were a bit before my time and I've never actually used them. I just know how symlinks work on Windows/NTFS and when they were added.
Even the i860 found more usage as a specialized CPU than the Itanium. The original Nextcube had an optional video card that used an i860 dedicated to graphics.
At least with Itanium Intel was trying something fresh. In comparison, the Pentium 4 arch was extra bad because it had a very long pipeline to achieve high core frequencies. Branch mispredictions were thus very costly. And it was soon obvious that the process wouldn't scale much above 3Ghz without wasting humongous amounts of power, defeating the long pipeline's purpose.
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