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The linked page was last updated 25 years ago.

by sydbarrett74 3y ago

zik 2y ago
It's still pretty interesting though if you're into CPU architecture. It's an interesting little slice of history.
- Dalewyn 2y ago
  The P6 is the direct ancestor of the Intel Core line of CPUs, which is on its 14th and 15th generation on desktop and mobile respectively and presumably will see the 16th generation release later this year. (Screw the Intel Core(Ultra)<X> rebranding.) So in that sense, this is a very interesting bit of history that's still relevant today.
  - phire 2y ago
    Yeah, nearly 30 years of continual incremental improvements to the same P6 microarchitecture. Intel actually went back to the P6 µarch after Netburst (Pentium 4) failed to meet expectations. Fortunately, they had continue to improve P6 as a laptop focused processor (Pentium M). Netburst is a very interesting µarch, with a lot of interesting innovations. Some of those ideas (like hyperthreadding, the single physical register file and a simplified uop cache) eventually made their way back to the P6 uarch. And it's not just historically relevant to Intel. Other CPU vendors started copying the basic layout of the P6 and as now days the high-level views of AMD's Zen µarch and all high-performance AArch64 µarches look remarkably similar to the P6 and its decedents.
rayiner 2y ago
When you said that I thought this was about the 1980s, not the late 1990s…
- agumonkey 2y ago
  the 80s are forever 20 years ago
krylon 2y ago
I could tell. It loaded nearly instantly and rendered as fast it was loaded. (Also, I read that article on one beautiful afternoon in the summer of 2008.)
bayindirh 2y ago
As long as the information is accurate, does it matter?
- sydbarrett74 2y ago
  The 'News' bit of this site's name connotes that a majority of articles cover current events. When historical information is presented, the best practice is to cite the year parenthetically in the post's title. If this practice were followed more consistently, people less interested in purely historical content could skip over it more easily. HN could even grab the 'last updated' metadata from the linked page programmatically.

The linked page was last updated 25 years ago.

zik 2y ago

It's still pretty interesting though if you're into CPU architecture. It's an interesting little slice of history.

Dalewyn 2y ago
The P6 is the direct ancestor of the Intel Core line of CPUs, which is on its 14th and 15th generation on desktop and mobile respectively and presumably will see the 16th generation release later this year. (Screw the Intel Core(Ultra)<X> rebranding.) So in that sense, this is a very interesting bit of history that's still relevant today.
- phire 2y ago
  Yeah, nearly 30 years of continual incremental improvements to the same P6 microarchitecture. Intel actually went back to the P6 µarch after Netburst (Pentium 4) failed to meet expectations. Fortunately, they had continue to improve P6 as a laptop focused processor (Pentium M). Netburst is a very interesting µarch, with a lot of interesting innovations. Some of those ideas (like hyperthreadding, the single physical register file and a simplified uop cache) eventually made their way back to the P6 uarch. And it's not just historically relevant to Intel. Other CPU vendors started copying the basic layout of the P6 and as now days the high-level views of AMD's Zen µarch and all high-performance AArch64 µarches look remarkably similar to the P6 and its decedents.

rayiner 2y ago

When you said that I thought this was about the 1980s, not the late 1990s…

agumonkey 2y ago
the 80s are forever 20 years ago

krylon 2y ago

I could tell. It loaded nearly instantly and rendered as fast it was loaded. (Also, I read that article on one beautiful afternoon in the summer of 2008.)

bayindirh 2y ago

As long as the information is accurate, does it matter?

sydbarrett74 2y ago
The 'News' bit of this site's name connotes that a majority of articles cover current events. When historical information is presented, the best practice is to cite the year parenthetically in the post's title. If this practice were followed more consistently, people less interested in purely historical content could skip over it more easily. HN could even grab the 'last updated' metadata from the linked page programmatically.