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Intel's hugely unsuccessful 432 also supported hardware garbage collection in 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432#Garbage_collection https://en.

• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  Ok, that makes two of us that read a pile of SW features in HW and thought about the 432. I think this is more like the i960, though, where a fast RISC gets some extra features. Always thought it might have succeeded if not for the BiiN and Ada crap. IBM's been playing it smarter with POWER by making sure its compatible with and aids the software people actually use. So, POWER9 has a much better chance than Intel's prior attempts.