> vector instructions ... forgotten for a good while. Not quite "forgotten" all of that time, though. Didn't x86 add them around the turn of the century? And

> vector instructions ... forgotten for a good while. Not quite "forgotten" all of that time, though. Didn't x86 add them around the turn of the century? And probably other CISC architectures too, now and then over the decades. It's not like they went away totally, and only popped up again right now.