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Re:Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile... by rbanffy on Thursday November 06, 2014 @03:06PM (#8569428)
While not exactly a chip (it never reached board stage) I designed a processor in college where the register file was keyed to a task-id register. This way, context switches could take no longer than an unconditional jump.

I dropped this feature when I switched to a single-task stack-based machine (inspired by my adventures with GraFORTH - thank you, Paul Lutus). This ended up being my graduation project.

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