So many people assume that everything that came before they were at school was primitive, and barely chugged along :)
A little reading shows the opposite. Most of our smart ideas were already used in 1940s/50s/60s computers, and are recycled on our fab new chips!! Pipelining, out of order exec, multiple cores, etc.
That old-time hardware might have been a bit "chunky" but the architectures used some very smart techniques.
another example is the virtualization that pretty much enabled the whole "cloud" thing came from mainframe architecture in the 60s. Intel and others brought it to consumer grade CPUs.
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So many people assume that everything that came before they were at school was primitive, and barely chugged along :)
A little reading shows the opposite. Most of our smart ideas were already used in 1940s/50s/60s computers, and are recycled on our fab new chips!! Pipelining, out of order exec, multiple cores, etc.
That old-time hardware might have been a bit "chunky" but the architectures used some very smart techniques.
another example is the virtualization that pretty much enabled the whole "cloud" thing came from mainframe architecture in the 60s. Intel and others brought it to consumer grade CPUs.