On 05/03/18 09:00, dennis@home wrote:
On 05/03/2018 08:09, Tim Watts wrote:
On 04/03/18 23:23, dennis@home wrote:
On 04/03/2018 22:37, Tim Watts wrote:
On 04/03/18 22:30, Tim Streater wrote:

Name me a CPU concept we have today and I'll point you at an old
machine with the same idea.


Advanced pipelines and branch prediction?

Early '80s.


Which machine?

SPARC and that was based on some experimental thing IIRC.


Ah - yes. I didn't peg SPARC as going back that far (I was wibbling with
VAXen back then)