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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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