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Re:The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von N... by favorited on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @03:52PM (#42119609)
I'm about 75% through the audiobook, and it's absolutely fantastic.

The most surprising thing so far is how advanced the hardware was. I wasn't expecting to hear about pipelining, branch prediction, SIMD, microcode, instruction and data caches, etc. in the context of an early-80s minicomputer.

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Re:The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von N... by mixmastamyk on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @11:54AM (#42127704)
Yes, though that stuff cost bug bucks back then. PCs were a big step backward for a long time.
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