Re: Development Speed

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Quoting: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg02094.html
From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Development Speed
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:16:24 -0500

I just noticed that I used the term open source there and not free
software; a bad habit I am getting over. :)

> Some of those old platforms are among the most important ones
> because they allow operation without the Intel Management Engine
> (or AMD's counterpart to that).

This a very critical point I forgot to consider, good to bring it up.

Quoting: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg02123.html
From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: Development Speed
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:09:09 +0100

>> ... without the Intel Management Engine
>> (or AMD's counterpart to that).
> Aren't there modern machines without this? Machines that are much more
> performant, reliable and secure than those old ones, which usually are
> tied to an unsupported OS full of security defects?

Are there recent, powerful amd64 cores without built-in surveillance out
there?  Accessibility outside of first-world is also important, I'd be
interested to know those if you care to help.