[madgar]

Seems like a huge difference between "instructions we don't use at all" and "ring 0 input processing we use constantly and can't stop using"

The only similarity seems to be "modern computers with legacy logic" which isn't terribly insightful.

[eru]

You can also choose to ignore the reason-by-analogue I gave, and just take my prediction as a bet. I offer even odds at a 100 bucks that this ttl stuff will still be in the Linux kernel in 20 years.

[madgar]

I didn't ignore your reasoning, I acknowledged it and said it was not insightful.

Unused CPU instructions are difficult (but not impossible!) to deprecate for completely different reasons than the critical functionality of line discipline that is used all day every day and for which nobody has proposed a viable alternative.

[eru]

Oh, the line discipline is fine. But why does this have to be kernel code?