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		dfox on June 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstatio... Then they found a way how to (ab)use amd64 MMU to do more or less the same thing that they had custom CPU architecture for (ie. GC barriers in hardware).

rbanffy on June 18, 2024 [–]

A real shame. When they figured that out, their innovative hardware was doomed.

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