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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Received on Tue Feb 29 2000 - 16:14:31 GMT