alt Hacker NewsCPUs haven't worked like that in anything but a microcontroller for half a century
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userbinator • today at 4:40 AM
The tiny MIPS (or compatible) cores in things like cheap router SoCs might still be like that.
CPUs haven't worked like that in anything but a microcontroller for half a century
The tiny MIPS (or compatible) cores in things like cheap router SoCs might still be like that.
Correct (well, maybe not half a century, maybe 30 years or so). I was just about to reply that I'd love a version of this that shows instructions going in and out of a re-order buffer. That would be enlightening.