Re: Stealing a Great Idea from the 6600

MitchAlsup1 wrote:

Stefan Monnier wrote:
 

Having gone through the transition (1-wide IO, 2-wide IO, 6-wide OoO)
the OoO machine was simply less complexity--or to say it a different
way--the complexity was more orderly (and more easily verified).

 

I tend to think of it a bit like the transition from using overlays and
segments to the use of on-demand paging.

 Who (in their right minds) would go back from paging to overlays ???
 {Although many people enjoy driving Model Ts ...}

I have been in a lovingly restored 1914 (or 1913?) model T, but only as a passenger. When I saw how difficult it was to start and drive it (steering, gear changes etc) I was very glad the owner didn't suggest I should try.
The year number was _very_ important to the owner, he had worked on it for years, sourcing the correct vintage of every part where the year model is documented. Finally the only "wrong" part was the wishbone which he knew was from the other year, then he finally found out that a farm about 3 hours away from the Twin Cities used such a wishbone as their dinner bell. He unmounted the part from his car, drove all the way out there, found that the "bell" was in fact from the other year, then swapped them (with the farmer's permission of course!).
Terje
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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"