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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by michrassena on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:18PM (#16757417)
As a matter of fact, I think this concept dates at least as far back as the IBM 360.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O

And you can find similar concepts in a standard PC today. The GPU is an example of offloading a workload to a specialized processor.

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