29 Feb
2000
29 Feb
'00
4:14 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:40:31PM -0500, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
"The power, speed, and flexibility of Symbolics
processing machines result
from optimizing the hardware design to match the software environment.
Some of the special architecture features include:
Tagged architecture
Not sure what that is?
Multiple caches
Hardware stack management
So I guess maybe that wasn't taken for granted back then huh?
Pipelined instruction cycles
Parallel processing
Hmmm.
Hardware assisted garbage collection
Now that'd still be cutting-edge if implemented on a modern processor...
Just saw a slashdot article about it that pointed here...
http://csl.cs.iit.edu/~dmm/
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