wallopinski

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   by wallopinski 1y ago

   2004 me and my friends: "I don't want all my public information online." GenZ; publishes every possible detail on TikTok. In 20 years we've done a cultural 180 on privacy. I bet in 20 years Gen5 (three generations from n
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   by wallopinski 1y ago

   Well duh, the IFU. :) No, I was fond of the FPU because the math was just so bonkers. The way division was performed with complete disregard to the rules taught to gradeschoolers always fascinated me. Bob Colwell told us that P6 was the las
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   by wallopinski 1y ago

   "Transistors are free." That was pretty much the uArch/design mantra at intel.
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   by wallopinski 1y ago

   I was an instruction fetch unit (IFU) architect on P6 from 1992-1995. And yes, it was a pain, and we had close to 100x the test vectors of all the other units, going back to the mid 1980's. Once we started going bonkers with the prefix
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   by wallopinski 1y ago

   Funny and depressing that the AMD/Intel culture war still exists. I remember arguing about it in 1990. Their marketing departments severely brainwashed generations of nerds.
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   by wallopinski 1y ago

   I'm really surprised 286-based machines were still $1600 in 1991. But it was a brand name and not a frankenclone assembled from the back of computer shopper.
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   by wallopinski 1y ago

   1995 website.