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tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri May 4 20:35:35 UTC 2007


On 4-May-07, at 1:29 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:


>
> The idea actually is rather old, IIRC the Alto was 16-ways  
> "hyperthreaded".

Even systems could be 'hyperthreaded' in a sense. The old amiga took  
advantage of the fairly dismal 68K architecture that meant the cpu  
could only access the memory bus every fourth cycle to allow the  
coprocessors to get their work done at almost no performance cost.

tim
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