I'm about 75% through the audiobook, and it's absolutely fantastic. The most surprising thing so far is how advanced the hardware was. I wasn't expecting to h

I'm about 75% through the audiobook, and it's absolutely fantastic. The most surprising thing so far is how advanced the hardware was. I wasn't expecting to hear about pipelining, branch prediction, SIMD, microcode, instruction and data caches, etc. in the context of an early-80s minicomputer.