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The Chisnall article is a tutorial in incorrect Computer Architecture. PDP11s had caches by the 1970s and always had memory management. IPL was invented in the
by vyodaiken 5y ago
The Chisnall article is a tutorial in incorrect Computer Architecture. PDP11s had caches by the 1970s and always had memory management. IPL was invented in the 1960s and has nothing to do with C. Branch predictors were invented in the 1960s too and one of the first machines C was ported to was the IBM370 which had super sophisticated IPL. Etc.
- I_Byte 5y agoI was unaware. Thank you for the correction! Do you have any further reading on this topic?
- vyodaiken 5y agoI am sorry to say, I do not have a good short reference. There has to be one, though, I hope. The Hennesey Patterson books are the standard intros.
- vyodaiken 5y agohttps://www.yodaiken.com/2021/05/21/your-computer-is-a-fast-pdp-11-and-more-on-c-the-c-standard-and-computer-architecture/ https://www.yodaiken.com/2021/05/21/your-computer-is-a-fast-...
- vyodaiken 5y agoILP, sheesh