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So that’s why, if one of them locks up or freezes, your whole computer can crash because it’s not actually doing things in parallel. What utter BS. Does this
by colanderman 14y ago
So that’s why, if one of them locks up or freezes, your whole computer can crash because it’s not actually doing things in parallel.
What utter BS. Does this guy know nothing about privilege levels [1]? or anything about operating system and processor development from the past 20 years?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_level http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_level
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- pessimizer 14y ago>What utter BS. What silly outrage. That explanation is so close enough for an audience full of laypeople.
- colanderman 14y agoIt's a lie (intentional or not), and one that does the author a disservice by (a) making him look like a fool to his peers, and (b) obfuscating the actual benefits of his computing model (which, from the paper, look to have more to do increasing performance of certain parallel algorithms rather than fault-tolerance).