Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:32:32 -0700, "Chris M. Thomasson"
<chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/20/2024 7:28 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

It would be HIGHLY local wrt its processing units and its memory for
they would all be one.
 
The programming for it would not be all that easy... It would be like a
NUMA where a program can divide itself up and run parts of itself on
each slot (aka memory-cpu hybrid unit card if you will). If a program
can be embarrassingly parallel, well that would be great! The Cell
processors comes to mind. But it failed. Shit.
 
A system with a mother board that has slots for several GPUS (think
crossfire) and slots for memory+CPU units. The kicker is that adding
more memory gives you more cpus...
 
How crazy is this? Well, on a scale from:
 
Retarded to Moronic?
 
Pretty bad? Shit...
 
Shit man, remember all of the slots in the old Apple IIgs's?
 
;^o

>
Think of the transwarp card for the apple iigs. I think it was called
that. It sped up the system for sure.

Had one. It was a CPU accelerator board - not memory.

The Transwarp board provided a fast 65816 and cache. It plugged into a
slot but took only power from the bus. It connected to the system
board via a cable plugged into the original CPU socket.

The original //gs CPU was 2.5MHz.  Transwarp was one of 2 accelerators
that could be purchased, increasing CPU to 6, 8 or 10 MHz.